Desperate to assist Donald Trump, Jim Jordan keeps trying to intervene in ongoing criminal investigations. As stevebenen writes, the Republican's antics are both indefensible and failing.
: At one point, the local prosecutor found it necessary to warn the Ohio congressman that he was approaching the line of “unlawful political interference.”House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a top Trump ally, is calling on the Justice Department to provide lawmakers with internal documents laying out the scope of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents found last year at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
In a letter first reported by NBC News, Jordan told Garland that his committee wants “an unredacted copy of the memorandum outlining the scope of Mr. Smith’s probes regarding President Trump and any supporting documentation related to his appointment as special counsel.
on the specific FBI personnel involved in the investigation into Trump’s classified documents scandal.First, I’m all for robust congressional oversight of the executive branch, but Jordan’s hysteria is plainly indefensible. There’s simply no way federal prosecutors — before a possible indictment is filed — will open its files in an ongoing investigation to a criminal suspect’s sycophantic ally. The very idea is absurd to the point of comedy.
Second, if recent history is any guide, the Judiciary Committee chairman will respond to inevitable Justice Department resistance as evidence of law enforcement having “something to hide.” That will be ridiculous, but he’sAnd finally, no one should be surprised if Jordan, desperate to use his gavel to assist Trump, takes these antics in some radical directions.
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