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On Monday, the Judicial Committee, which is controlled by the Republican Party, headed by Representative Donald Trump Jim Jordan-is scheduled to hold Field hearing In New York City, it is called “victims of violent crime in Manhattan.” statement The Judicial Committee says, as the Judicial Committee says, as an examination of how “it led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous society for the residents of New York City.”
In response, the Prague office criticized the Jordan session “as”.Political trickDuring the indication that the data issued by the New York Police Administration shows that the crime has decreased in Manhattan with regard to killing, robbery, theft and more than April 2, compared to the same period last year.
Indeed, this Jordan’s session is not related to stopping the crime, but rather from defending Trump-who recently accused him by a major jury in Manhattan with 34 felony. Trump acknowledged that he was not guilty of criminal charges caused by an investigation into a batch of silence of a movie actress for adults. The former president also faces criminal investigations into other judicial states on efforts to cancel the 2020 elections and address the classified documents in Mar Lago.
Baraj filed a lawsuit against Jordan and his committee last week in the Federal Court, accusing the Chairman of the Judicial Committee of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office to achieve and navigate him in Trump through the demands of documents and confidentiality.
While Jordan and its committee focus on distorting the reputation of the investigation into Trump, why do they not search in two recent reports of Bopoplika, who raised red flags about the judge’s relationship with the Supreme Court Clainis Thomas with the Republican Party Megadonor Harlan Crow? After all, the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives Website He explains that she has a specialty on “issues related to justice management in federal courts” – which fits the disclosure of Thomas completely.
First, we learned in early April that Crowe had provided Thomas and his wife, Jenny, for decades with luxurious vacations, including on The donor’s yacht and private planes To distant places like Indonesia and New Zealand. This information has not been revealed to the public. (In a rare general statement, Thomas replied that he had advised at the time that he had not had to report trips. Justice said that the instructions to report personal hospitality had changed recently.
Then on Thursday, PROPUBLICA stated that Thomas failed to reveal a real estate deal for the year 2014, which involves the sale of three real estate he and his family in Savana, Georgia, for the same huge Republican Party, Crowe. A Crow company has purchased $ 133,363, according to ProPublica. Federal Detection Law It was passed after Witrgit requires the Supreme Court judges and other officials to top the details of most real estate sales of more than $ 1,000.
like ProPublica Detailed, the Federal Disclosure Model this year included a space to report the identity of the buyer in any special treatment, but Thomas left this space empty. Four of PROPUBLICA experts told Thomas’s failure to report that it appears to be a violation of the law. (Thomas did not answer questions from ProPublica to her report; CNN contacted the Supreme Court and Thomas to comment.)
The Judicial Committee in the House of Representatives has long dealt with cases such as those surrounding Tomas. In fact, the committee is where investigations and Dismissal From federal judges often begin.
A modern example came in 2010 with the judge C. Thomas Ports JuniorThe committee achieved and recommended it to account.
The work of the committee related to judicial accountability The aforementioned evidence showed that “the statements of the wrong materials and representations deliberately under the penalty of perjury, and participated in a corrupt starting scheme, asked for illegal gifts, and intentionally misled the Senate during confirmation procedures.” The Senate later found guilty Four articles of dismissal And remove it from the bench.
However, the judicial committee does not have Train data no Tweets Raise the alarm bells from Thomas. Instead, its Twitter extract is filled Tweet repeated Where is that It will not cover C-SPAN The field listening session on Monday. Worse than that, the committee re -tweeting the Republican Party Twitter, MP Mary Miller Defending Thomas as an attack “because he is a man with a deep faith, he loves our country and believes in our constitution.”
Jordan should not be surprised by the use of his committee to help Trump. The report of the House of Representatives is called on January 6 The OHIO RepublicanAn important player in President Trump’s effortsTo cancel the elections. The report detailed the legislator’s efforts to help Trump, including on January 2, 2021, The actor led Jordan He and the current three, President Trump and other members of Congress discussed strategies to delay the joint session on January 6. As a result, the January 6 committee summoned Jordan for testimony – but he refused to cooperate.
Unlike the House of Representatives Committee, the Senate Judicial Committee, headed by Democrats, announced in the wake of Thomas that it plans to hold a hearing “on the need to restore confidence in the moral standards of the Supreme Court.” Beyond that, Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitech from Rod Island and MP Hank Johnson from Georgia Send a message on Friday To refer Thomas to the American Prosecutor about “Potential Violations of Ethics in the Government Law 1978.”
The Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives Notes“The lawyer for the House of Representatives has been summoned.” During the reign of Jordan, this description must be updated to mention that the Judicial Committee is now “Donald J. Trump”. The worst part is that it is the taxpayers who pay for Jordan’s work on behalf of Trump.