District attorney in Trump hush-money case sues top Republican to halt interference

Manhattan DA sues top Republican to halt meddling with Trump case

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a lawsuit against Jim Jordanthe Republican chair of the House judiciary committee, to stop his efforts aimed at publicizing details of his office’s prosecution of Donald Trump, the New York Times reports.

Jordan is one of Trump’s top allies in Congress, and together with other Republicans has demanded documents and testimony from Bragg, who late last month indicted the former president on charges of falsifying business records. Last week, Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantza former prosecutor in Bragg’s office who wrote a book about why he thinks Trump should face charges. The subpoena requires Pomerantz sit for a deposition before the judiciary committee, which has played a major role in the House GOP’s campaign of investigations against the Biden administration.

Accusing Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on Bragg’s prosecution, and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the Manhattan prosecutor, the lawsuit filed in federal court asks a judge to halt the subpoena to Pomerantz, and any future summons.

The Times reports that Pomerantz “has shown no indication that he is willing to testify voluntarily”, but declined to comment on Bragg’s lawsuit.

In about 20 minutes, Air Force One is expected to touch down in Belfast, Northern Ireland where Joe Biden will begin his five-day trip to the island. While he has no public events scheduled this evening, tomorrow he will meet with UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and deliver a speech at Ulster University, before departing for Dublin.

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Keep it turned to this blog, where the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh will be covering Biden’s Belfast arrival as it happens. Until then, here’s a recap of what’s happened today so far:

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy will speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling. He will probably reiterate the GOP’s demand that the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for their votes to raise it.

Chuck Schumerthe Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.

Democrats are planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.

Speaking of Bragg, he filed a lawsuit against House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan to get him to stop messing with his prosecution of the former president.

Montana might be about to outlaw abortion after the second trimester of pregnancy.

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The Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has asked that the chamber’s lawmakers be briefed on the leaked Pentagon documents concerning US assessments of the war in Ukraine.

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“Majority Leader Schumer has requested a classified briefing for all senators on the leaked classified US documents on the war in Ukraine,” a spokesperson for the senator told the Guardian’s US politics live blog.

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Among the revelations from the documents is that Washington is concerned about Kyiv’s military strength ahead of a counteroffensive against Russia’s forces, which expected to start soon. Read more about that below:

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The Times reports that Pomerantz “has shown no indication that he is willing to testify voluntarily”, but declined to comment on Bragg’s lawsuit.

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Congress is finally getting the access it has demanded to the classified documents taken from Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Mike Pencethough the materials will only be viewed in secret and by the chamber’s top leaders. Meanwhile, Democrats have made an important decision: Chicago will be the host city for their convention next year. Still no definitive word from Biden on his re-election plans, though yesterday he made it plain as can be by saying, “I plan on running.”

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Here’s what else has happened so far today:

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House speaker Kevin McCarthy will speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling, where he’ll likely demand the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for the GOP’s support in raising it.

Chuck Schumerthe Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.

Democrats are planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) today selected Chicago as the host city for its convention next year, where Joe Biden will likely again receive the party’s nomination to contest the presidential election.

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“Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up, not from the top down,” Biden said in a statement announcing the decision.

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DNC chair Jaime Harrison said: “The midwest reflects America and will give Democrats an opportunity to showcase some of President Biden and Vice-President Harris’s most significant accomplishments for American families. I’m grateful to the leadership of Chicago’s bid for being great partners, as well as to the other cities for putting forward such strong bids.”

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Chicago beat out Atlanta, Houston and New York in the race for the convention’s host city.

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If there’s one lesson to be drawn from the classified documents scandal that’s gripped Washington since last August, it’s this: people who work at the White House apparently like to hang on to government secrets.

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Now, the three powerful men implicated here are in varying degrees of trouble, though with none of their cases resolved, we don’t know yet how severe the consequences could be.

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Donald Trump appears to be in the greatest peril. He’s being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith over the secret materials the FBI found when they searched Mar-a-Lago last August – which only happened after the former president refused months of entreaties to hand over all the materials that he had. Smith is also looking into Trump’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection and the broader effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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But it turns out Joe Biden had his own stash of classified documents. Unlike Trump, the president reportedly started handing them over to government secret keepers as soon as he became aware he had the materials – which date back to his time as a senator and vice-president – at his former office and residence, though the White House did keep quiet for months about the discoveries after they were first made around the time of last November’s midterm election. Attorney general Merrick Garland has appointed another special prosecutor, Robert Howto look into whether Biden broke the law here.

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Trump’s former vice-president Mike Pence also kept classified documents at his home in Indiana, and has since turned them over to the powers that be. Garland has not appointed a special prosecutor to look into this.

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. We’ve known for months that Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Mike Pence were holding on to classified documents they apparently should not have possessed – but what, exactly, did they have? The leaders of Congress are finding out, after the Democratic and Republican leaders in each chamber as well as the top lawmakers on the intelligence committees were given access to the material taken from three men, Punchbowl News reports. It remains to be seen if the lawmakers will keep quiet about what they saw, or air their views about the issue, which presents varying degrees of legal peril for the three men.

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Here’s what else is happening today:

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Washington continues to reel from a major leak of US intelligence materials, and national security officials say they don’t know yet if the apparently pu rloined documents have been contained.

Joe Biden is heading to Northern Ireland where he will, among other things, celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement that mostly quelled decades of violence.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters during Biden’s flight to Belfast.

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Biden expected to land in Belfast as Ireland trip begins

Keep it turned to this blog, where the Guardian’s Maanvi Singh will be covering Biden’s Belfast arrival as it happens. Until then, here’s a recap of what’s happened today so far:

House speaker Kevin McCarthy will speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling. He will probably reiterate the GOP’s demand that the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for their votes to raise it.
Chuck Schumerthe Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.
Democrats are planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.
Speaking of Bragghe filed a lawsuit against House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan to get him to stop messing with his prosecution of the former president.
Montana might be about to outlaw abortion after the second trimester of pregnancy.

Senate leader demands briefing on leaked Pentagon documents

The Senate’s Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has asked that the chamber’s lawmakers be briefed on the leaked Pentagon documents concerning US assessments of the war in Ukraine.

Here’s what Republican House judiciary committee chair Jim Jordan has to say about the lawsuit the Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg filed against him:

First, they indict a president for no crime.

Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.

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First, they indict a president for no crime.

Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 11, 2023

The president he’s referring to here is, of course, Donald Trump.

The family of Evan Gershkovich, the American Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on espionage charges, has released a statement after Joe Biden called them today.

Read it here:

Evan Gershkovich’s family released the following statement after their call with President Biden on Tuesday:

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Manhattan DA sues top Republican to halt meddling with Trump case

The Times reports that Pomerantz “has shown no indication that he is willing to testify voluntarily”, but declined to comment on Bragg’s lawsuit.

Joanna Walters

A bill to restrict abortions in Montana will become law – at least temporarily – if the governor signs it, a judge has ruledand the Associated Press reports.

The latest ruling denies a request by abortion rights advocates to preemptively block legislation that would ban the abortion method most commonly used in the second trimester.

District court judge Kathy Seeley said the request by Planned Parenthood of Montana was made before the bill became law, so there is nothing to block.

Montana’s legislature approved the bill on Friday. It would ban dilation and evacuation abortions, which are typically used later than 15 weeks into a pregnancy. The ban will take effect immediately if Republican governor Greg Gianforte signs it.

Planned Parenthood argued the law is unconstitutional based on a 1999 Montana supreme court ruling that found that the state constitution’s right to privacy includes the right to have a pre-viability abortion from a provider of the patient’s choice.

The organization asked the court to freeze the law preemptively to make sure patients wouldn’t be prevented from getting care while the court considered the case.

A “90 years of service” poster hangs on the side of a Planned Parenthood office, this one in Missouri, not Montana. Photograph: Lawrence Bryant/Reuters

Joanna Walters

Rightwinger Stephen Millera senior aide in Donald Trump’s White House, was spotted this morning in Washington DC, “entering the area where the grand jury tied to special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation meets,” NBC reports.

Miller and his attorney reportedly would not tell reporters why they were there.

The US court of appeals for the DC circuit last week denied Trump’s emergency motion to block several senior aides being called to testify, including Miller, former chief of staff Mark Meadows and former deputy White House chief of staff Dan ScavinoNBC adds.

A year ago, Miller testified to the House of Representatives select committee investigating the insurrection on 6 January 2021, by extremist supporters of Trump who were seeking to keep the then president in office by preventing the official certification by Congress of Joe Biden’s election victory.

Sources told the Guardian at the time that Miller was testifying about the extent to which Trump encouraged his supporters to march on the US Capitol, inciting an insurrection (for which he was later impeached in an unprecedented move by the House to impeach a US president for a second time, although, once again he was later acquitted by the US Senate).

Miller was a senior adviser to the-then president Trump and director of speechwriting, known for his hard-right anti-immigration beliefs.

Stephen Miller speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering in March 2023. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Democratic House representative Jennifer Wexton has announced she has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease:

On #WorldParkinsonsDayI’m here to share that I’ve been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease.

I’m doing well, and I want to bring about as much good from this diagnosis as I can—including here in Congress. pic.twitter.com/bvEwzZQbqp

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Wexton, who represents Virginia’s suburbs near Washington DC, was among the Democrats considered vulnerable in last November’s midterm election, though she ended up being re-elected with more than 53% of the vote.

The day so far

Here’s what else has happened so far today:

House speaker Kevin McCarthy will speak at the New York Stock Exchange next week regarding the debt ceiling, where he’ll likely demand the Biden administration accept spending cuts in exchange for the GOP’s support in raising it.
Chuck Schumerthe Senate’s Democratic leader, will next week introduce a resolution to condemn Trump’s calls to defund the FBI and justice department.
Democrats are planning their counterattack to House Republicans’ plans next week to hold a hearing on crime in New York City – where Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg recently filed criminal charges against Trump.

Shifting to the realm of less public Republican activities, the Guardian’s Peter Stone reports on an intensifying conservative effort to undermine voter rolls nationwide:

An influential conservative group that has filed numerous lawsuits to force states to clean up their voter rolls, has joined Donald Trump and other election denial groups in attacking the most robust tool that accurately improves those voter rolls.

Judicial Watch, whose leader Tom Fitton urged Trump in 2020 to claim victory before all the votes were tallied, released a flawed report alleging potential violations of federal law by the Electronic Registration Information Center (Eric), a bipartisan consortium of over two dozen states that exchange voter registration data to ensure election security.

Fitton’s attack on Eric is part of a growing campaign by Trump-allied election denialist groups and Trump to urge member states to leave the consortium, prompting scathing criticism from voting rights advocates and election experts including some GOP officials.

Jerry Nadler (center) is a Democratic congressman and avowed Donald Trump foe. Photograph: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock

Meanwhile, Punchbowl News reports today that a group of Democrats will take part in the House judiciary committee hearing in New York City, reversing their non-participation in some of the field visits organized recently by the committee’s GOP chair Jim Jordan.

The committee’s ranking member, New York representative Jerry Nadlerand other Democrats are expected to hold a press conference with city officials around the time of the hearing, Punchbowl reports. The event will be part of their counter-attack to the argument Jordan and other Republicans are expected to make, which is that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg is focused less on fighting crime, and more on prosecuting Donald Trump.