House Republicans Leap to Trump’s Defense

Plus: The Senate considers ending a pair of war authorizations, and the China competition committee plans its next hearing.

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy speaks during a news conference in May 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Former President Donald Trump may be arrested soon. The fact that an arrest hasn’t happened yet—and that other details remain unclear—isn’t stopping House Republicans from demanding answers from New York prosecutors.

Three House GOP committee chairmen sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday asking for documents related to the legal probe. They also hinted that Congress could take action, such as withholding public safety funds from local law enforcement agencies. The lawmakers set a Thursday deadline for Bragg to schedule a transcribed interview with congressional staff about the case, which Republicans argue is political.

“You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office,” the Republican lawmakers—Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer—wrote.

They added that Bragg’s actions “will erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice and unalterably interfere in the course of the 2024 presidential election.”

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    JohnD

    My my, how the GOP has fallen these past 10 years. In my youth (60s -70s) I honestly think the GOP had the intellectual high ground. Now they are led by buffoons like Trump and McCarthy and Jorden and take their marching orders from Hannity. I doubt if any of them has ever read a book!

    Where have you gone,Milton Friedman?

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    Kbroot

    Glad Tuesday remained a relatively quiet day. Trump comes off as a toddler again (albeit a dangerous one) and the house leadership shows its lack of quality and insight.

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  3. Shelby.Emmett13

    I'm so happy to learn America has so few problems to solve our chairmen can focus on one idiot.

    The GOP is a joke.

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  4. Mturnercs

    Thanks for the links to various Congressional hearings. They are very useful.

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  5. Tommaj60

    Republicans are running out of feet to shoot.
    Dem strategy to win in ‘24? Keep the crazies in the news.
    Another politically homeless voter.

    Btw: Reagan is more alive than his party.

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    JohnM.

    Another really good edition of Uphill. Thanks, Haley.

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  7. Kittyecws

    Wait, I thought education was supposed to be a state and local matter!

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    1. Edward Moffett

      Then why does the Department of Education flow so many federal dollars to local schools?

      In case you missed it, the Obama Department of Education tried to dictate transgender bathroom policy to every public school in America. And they were stupid enough to try to loft that lead balloon during the 2016 election season.

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      1. Jim S

        So is the answer is to attempt to dictate anti-trans bathroom policies for every public school in America?

        What is going on with Conservatives and Education is not any different than what is going on with Liberals. Culture War BS in an attempt to secure cultural hegemony. None of this has anything to do with educating kids.

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        1. Edward Moffett

          To quote Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon!”.

          To answer your question, the proper policy is to let each school district to select the bathroom policy that suits the architecture of its school buildings and the cultural norms of its community, rather than forcing every school district to conform to the standards of a small group of wooden-headed East Coast liberals inside the beltway.

          Democrats are tedious bores.

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    PJ

    Wow, I can no longer take anything Republican seriously.

    I am watching closely though, so I can know what I can get away with when dealing with my local car dealer, flooring company, or any other business that is assumed to be Republican unless they clearly communicate differently.

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  9. Hikingguy

    The House Judiciary Committee has no jurisdiction over state courts. Jim Jordan can bloviate all he wants-he's good at that, if nothing else-but he has no power. None. It's all performance for the rubes.

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      Stephanie

      This has to be a first: a partisan House committee interfering with a criminal investigation in one of the States.

      Looks an awful lot like “an unprecedented abuse of . . . authority” on someone’s part, and it’s not the Manhattan DA.

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    🐝 BusyBusyBee 🐝

    Is the Uyghur Congressional hearing an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” situation? I struggle to see House Republicans lining up to defend Chinese Muslims for any other reason.

    Anyway, you guys have the Stormy Daniels story all wrong and are - like TMD - towing the Trump line on it. It wasn’t hush money to Stormy Daniels, it was a *catch and kill* of her story. She’d been trying to SELL it for years and when Trump won the nomination in 2016, National Enquirer contacted her to offer to buy the story. What they were doing was buying it to suppress it. Cohen worked with Nat. Enq. to pay Daniels. That’s where the “hush money” part comes in to play. National Enquirer didn’t want to pay her, so they got Cohen to do so. He paid it and Trump paid him back as “legal fees”. So, yeah, stop with the *hush money* stuff. It’s nonsense

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      JohnM.

      " I struggle to see House Republicans lining up to defend Chinese Muslims for any other reason."
      Perhaps because it's the right thing to do.

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