And good on Alvin Bragg (in this case anyway)

It was stupid for Jim Jordan to take this route, but then, Jim Jordan is fairly stupid.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Thursday rebuked a request from top House Republicans for testimony and documents about his investigation into former President Trump.

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In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Administration Chair Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.), Bragg’s general counsel Leslie Dubeck said the GOP request is “an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution.”

“The Letter only came after Donald Trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene,” she wrote. “Neither fact is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry.”

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1. The letter seeks “non-public information about a pending criminal investigation, which is confidential under state law.”

2. The requests are an “unlawful incursion into New York’s sovereignty” under the Tenth Amendment, which is understood to prevent congressional inquiries into matters delegated to the states.

3. Congress is “not the appropriate branch” to review a pending criminal case. Instead, Dubeck wrote, the courts are the “proper forum” for a challenge.

4.Requests for information about the use of federal funding are “an insufficient basis to justify these unconstitutional requests.”

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Dubeck said they would be willing to “meet and confer to understand whether the Committee has any legitimate legislative purpose in the requested materials that could be accommodated without impeding [New York’s sovereign police power].”

She also said the DA’s office is “preparing and will submit a letter describing its use of federal funds.”

“Alvin Bragg should focus on prosecuting actual criminals in New York City rather than harassing a political opponent in another state,” the House Judiciary Committee GOP tweeted after the release of the letter.

  Axios

Stupid. Prosecuting a New York City criminal is exactly what he's doing. The criminal happens to live in Florida now.

Read the full 5-page letter here.  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.