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On Monday, the Judicial Committee of the Chamber controlled by the Republican Party, highlighted by the representative of Donald Trump’s ally, Jim Jordan, was destined to hold a field hearing in New York City called “Victims of Violent Crimes in Manhattan.” A declaration invoices the hearing as an examination of how, says the Judicial Committee, the policies of the District Prosecutor of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, “have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for residents of New York City.”
In response, the Bragg office criticized Jordan’s audience as “a political trick” while indicating that the data published by the New York Police Department shows in Manhattan regarding the murders, robberies, robberies and more. April 2, April 2, April 2, April
Actually, this hearing led by Jordan is not about stopping the crime, but about defending Trump, who was recently accused of a large jury of Manhattan with 34 serious crimes. Trump declared himself innocent of the mood of criminal charges of an investigation into a payment of money from silence to an adult film actress. The former president also faces criminal probes in other jurisdictions on efforts to annul the 2020 elections and their management of documents classified in Mar-A-Lago.
Bragg sued Jordan and his committee last week in a federal court, accusing the president of the Judicial Committee of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office for Trump’s investigation and prosecution through the demand for confidential documents and testimony.
While Jordan and his committee seem focused on the discreditation of Trump’s investigation, why are they not investigating two propublic bomb reports that raised red flags about the Goprationship Thomas of the Supreme Court? After all, the website of the Judicial Committee of the Chamber explains that it has jurisdiction on “matters related to the administration of justice in federal courts”, for which the revelations about Thomas fit perfectly.
First, we knew at the beginning of April that Crow had Provid Thomas and his wife, Ginni, for decades with luxurious vacations, even on the yacht and the donor’s private jet to distant place as Indonesia and New Zealand. That information was never revealed to the public. (In a rare public statement, Thomas replied that he was advised at that time that he did not have to inform the trips. The judge said that the guidelines to inform the personal hospitality have recently changed.
Then, on Thursday, Propublic reported that Thomas could not reveal a 2014 real estate agreement that involved the sale of three properties that he and his family possessed in Savannah, Georgia, to that same Republican Megadonor, Crow. One of Crow’s companies made purchases for $ 133,363, according to Propublic. A Federal Dissemination Law approved after the judges of the Requeme de Watergate Court and other officials to make public the details of most real estate sales of more than $ 1,000.
As detailed propublicic, the federal dissemination form that Thomas presented that year included a space to inform the buyer’s identity in any private transaction, but Thomas left that blank space. Four ethics law experts told Propublic that the breach of Thomas in informing that it seems to be a violation of the law. (Thomas did not answer Propublic’s questions in his report; CNN contacted the Supreme Court and Thomas to comment).
The Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives has long addressed problems such as those around Thomas. In fact, the committee is where investigations and accusation of federal judges begin.
A recent example came in 2010 with Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., whom the committee investigated and entered for the accusation.
The task group of the Judicial Judgment said that the evidence showed that the false material statements and representations of Portean “intentionally made the penalty of Perjurio, are dedicated to a Schaee of corrupt overload, plicited and accepted the gifts of the Senate, and the gifts of induction height of four articles of gifts of interested and gifts of Hisgate.
However, the Judicial Committee has published statements or Tweets Raising alarm bells on Thomas. Instead, your Twitter feed is full of Repeated tweets Complaining about that C-Span Wan Wan Cover New York field audience on Monday. Worse, the committee retweeted the Republican party The Tweet of the representative Mary Miller Defend Thomas as attacked “because he is a deep man or faith, who loves our country and believes in our Constitution.”
The use of Jordan or his committee to help Trump should not surprise anyone. The January 6 Committee report of the Chamber called the Ohio Republican “a significant player in the efforts of President Trump” to cancel the elections. The report detailed the legislator’s efforts to help Trump, even “January 2, 2021, representative Jordan, directed a telephone conference in which he, President Trump and other members of the Congress discussed strategies to delay the Jint session of January 6”. As a result, the January 6 committee cited Jordan to testify, but refused to cooperation.
In contrast to the Chamber Panel, the Judicial Committee of the Senate, headed by Democrats, announced following the reports on Thomas that plans to hold an audience “about the need to restore confidence in the ethical standards of the Supreme Court.” Beyond that, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse from Rhode Island and representative Hank Johnson of Georgia sent a letter on Friday asking for a derivation of Thomas to the United States attorney general over “potential violations of the Ethics Law in the 1978 Government.”
The website of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives states: “The Judicial Committee has been called the lawyer of the House of Representatives.” Under Jordan, that description must be updated to affirm that the Judicial Committee is now “Donald J. Trump’s lawyer.” And the sausage is that taxpayers are those who pay for Jordan’s work in Trump’s being.