GOP's attempt to protect Trump is 'brazen in its lawlessness': Kirschner

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GOP's attempt to protect Trump is 'brazen in its lawlessness': Kirschner
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Republican House leaders sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Monday calling for his testimony amid his expected indictment of Trump.

, chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee; and Kentucky Representative James Comer, chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee.podcast, said that the move by GOP lawmakers was"a gross abuse of power, of position, of authority," and is"also arguably unconstitutional."

"Remember that little 10th Amendment?" the former federal prosecutor said."Right? That divvies up the rights of the federal government versus the rights of the states? Remember how the are all about states' rights until their political leader, their king, their Savior, is about to be criminally indicted for, let's call it what it is, crimes he committed."has no lawful authority, Congress has no jurisdiction, Congress has no lawful basis to interfere in a state court prosecution of anybody," Kirschner later added.

In a dramatic and transparent abuse of power, McCarthy & Jordan attempt to shut down NY DA Alvin Bragg's criminal investigation of Donald Trump.

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