House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan submitted a plan on Monday to defund prosecutors who are taking on former President Donald Trump in court: Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith.
From The Daily Wire:
The proposals, which appear in Jordan’s latest budget request to House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) for the fiscal year 2025, do not mention particular cases or any prosecutors by name, but they do describe situations that match the criminal matters involving Trump on the state and federal levels. The Judiciary Committee GOP confirmed on X that Trump prosecutors are the focus.
🚨 #BREAKING: @Jim_Jordan submits legislative proposals to DEFUND lawfare by Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James.
Also, no money for new FBI headquarters.
Read the full appropriations package here: https://t.co/YnofN174Xb pic.twitter.com/cmFOvXzRTL
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) June 3, 2024
“We have conducted oversight of the troubling rise in politicized prosecutions and the use of abusive ‘lawfare’ tactics to target political opponents,” Jordan wrote in his cover letter to Cole. “We have seen rogue prosecutors abuse the rules of professional conduct and their duty to do justice in service of politicized ends. We recommend that the Appropriations Committee, with appropriate consultation from leadership, include language to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare and to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says the GOP will “fight back” with “everything in our arsenal” against “political retribution in the court system to go after political opponents.”
“We have the funding streams. We have mechanisms to try to get control of that. We’ll be doing that within the confines of our jurisdiction,” Johnson said.
More over at The Daily Wire:
Jim Jordan Proposes Defunding Prosecutors In Trump Cases https://t.co/FWWEkVk9zC pic.twitter.com/NoNXWt2Kd1
— Daily Wire News (@DailyWireNews) June 3, 2024
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