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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, last week
sued Representative Jim Jordan to block a subpoena for testimony
from Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who once led the
office's multi-year investigation of Trump.
The subpoena came from the House of Representatives Judiciary
Committee, which Jordan chairs.
A hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) in federal
court in Manhattan before U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil.
Bragg has called the subpoena an unconstitutional "incursion"
into a state criminal case, and payback for charging Trump in
the first indictment of a former U.S. president.
The subpoena is part of a plan to "intimidate, harass,
retaliate, and hold 'accountable' District Attorney Bragg for
enforcing New York's criminal law against a then-New Yorker, Mr.
Trump," Bragg's lawyers said in a Tuesday filing.
Jordan countered that lawmakers needed Pomerantz's testimony,
now scheduled for Thursday, as they weigh legislation to let
presidents move state criminal actions to federal court. He said
the subpoena was covered by constitutional protection for
"speech or debate" in Congress.
Pomerantz urged Vyskocil to block the subpoena and said he
played no role in Bragg's decision to charge Trump.
Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 presidential
campaign, pleaded not guilty on April 4 to 34 felony charges
over a hush money payment made before the 2016 election to porn
star Stormy Daniels, to prevent her from discussing a sexual
encounter she said they had. He denies the liaison took place.
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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