Judiciary Committee members drag their colleagues from New York to attend Monday’s high-profile crime hearing.
Republicans, led by President Jim Jordan, conceded convention chair Rep. Elise Stefanik in their field hearing designed to strike at Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg and New York City’s crime politics.
A source familiar with the committee’s plans told DailyMail.com that Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman will be allowed to join the committee by his colleagues. His Manhattan-Brooklyn district includes the Javitz Federal Building, where the commission will hear witness testimony Monday at 10 a.m.
Goldman, heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment trial, will join a Democratic panel trying to portray the GOP attacks on Prague as politically motivated interference in a criminal investigation and a way to fetch water for Trump. Bragg indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records last week.
Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman will be allowed to join the committee by his colleagues, a source familiar with the committee’s plans told DailyMail.com.
Republicans, led by President Jim Jordan, conceded to convention chairman Rep. Elise Stefanik in their field hearing designed to hit Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg and New York City’s crime politics.
“President Jordan is not welcome in my district because of this political stunt which is simply an additional waste of taxpayer money to support the legal defense of Donald Trump,” Goldman said of the upcoming hearing.
Stefanik will join a team of judicial Republicans hungry to portray Bragg as a liberal, George Soros-backed attorney general more focused on bringing down Trump than on crime in his own backyard.
The congresswoman represents a district north of New York City but is the only member of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives from New York State.
“I look forward to Democrats being held accountable for failing to prosecute crimes and instead engaging in an illegal political witch-hunt against their political opponents,” Stefanik said of joining the committee.
Goldman was the lead adviser to House Democrats when they impeached Trump over his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he withheld congressional-approved military aid while pressing the leader to open an investigation into President Joe Biden, Trump’s then-rival.
Stefanik will join a team of judicial Republicans hungry to portray Bragg as a liberal, George Soros-backed attorney general more focused on bringing down Trump than on crime in his own backyard.
Republicans, led by President Jim Jordan, hold a field hearing on Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg’s methods and criminal policies
He has made Trump’s impeachment front and center of his congressional campaign, saying in a televised interview upon announcing his candidacy: “I’m running for Congress and this new 10th district because I want to be on the front lines, back in the trenches like I do.” act during accountability.
Both prosecutors by background, Bragg and Goldman’s ties run deep — and both have long been active in the city’s criminal justice field. Republicans say they share the same soft crime policies.
Goldman voted against resolving a D.C. crime bill that President Biden later signed into law in 2022 called him Increase social workers and mental health experts to respond to domestic violence disputes in place of police officers.
In 2021, a ‘friend and former (Southern District of New York) colleague’ endorsed Bragg for the attorney general job and donated $7,500 to his campaign. The 47-year-old father of five hosted a fundraiser for Prague at his multi-million dollar Tribeca home.
Former campaign adviser to Bragg and chief government aide, Richie Fyfe, also advised the Goldman campaign. Rei Ma, Bragg’s campaign finance director, became Goldman’s campaign finance director 5 months later.
Bragg and Goldman Hosted a fundraiser Together in April 2021 to discuss “Donald Trump and what’s at stake in the next #Manhattan.”
In 2022, while running for the 10th District seat, he said he “feels the way other people feel about being afraid to go on the subway and take the kids to school.”
In 2021, he admitted that New York City is experiencing a “rampant” and “scary” crime wave.
“You have people getting randomly shot on the subway. “There are people who get randomly thrown into car trunks,” he said on The Mary Trump Show, hosted by Donald Trump’s niece.
But in 2022, he flipped through controversial New York City bail reform.
in debate in August 2022, He said, “We can’t allow people to continue to cycle through the system because it demoralizes the cops, and gives everyone a perception of danger.”
The city’s 2019 reform made most nonviolent misdemeanors and felonies ineligible for bail.
Days after the August 2022 debate, Goldman Sachs said it did not agree to the cash bail.
“I don’t agree with the basic premise of (cash) bail, which is that people shouldn’t stay in jail because they can’t afford to post bail,” Then the candidate said.
Asked about bail reform, he said “whether the data indicates that it is safe or not, there is a perception in the city that it is not safe.” “And one of the reasons for that is the constant recurrence that occurs.”
The congressman, who as attorney general said in a June 10 interview that he would “play down criminology in the city,” said called him “Get non-violent offenders out of the system.”
Goldman has long advocated making the justice system more “fair” and reducing incarceration rates.
I’ve called for Close to Rikers Island Prison and Law School Books condition for a Stanford Code review titled “A Modern-Day Literacy Test?: Philon’s Disenfranchisement and Racial Discrimination,” in which he seemed to suggest that criminals should be given the vote.
While in law school, Goldman also worked on a book with Michelle Alexander called “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”.
Meanwhile, from the beginning of 2022 when he took office until November this year, Bragg has downgraded 52 percent of felonies to misdemeanors. When he does file a case, his office wins a conviction only 51% of the time—a low number compared to the attorney general’s office in recent years.
Earlier this week, Bragg sued Jordan on Tuesday in a notable move intended to prevent him from interfering with Trump’s indictment.
The lawsuit accused Jordan of committing a “scandalous and unconstitutional attack” on Trump’s impeachment trial after the committee subpoenaed Bragg’s former employee, demanded documents and planned a field hearing in New York City to detract from his office.
The 50-page lawsuit said Jordan was launching a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” Prague after it unveiled 34 criminal charges against Trump last week over the silent payments.
Bragg’s attorneys are seeking to block Jordan’s subpoena of Mark Pomerantz, who previously led the bureau’s investigation into Trump before resigning once Bragg rejected his legal theories, according to The New York Times. He later wrote a book about the need to impeach Trump.
Bragg, who campaigned for criminal justice reform, issued a controversial “Day One” memo after taking office, stating that he would only seek prison time in the most serious cases.
In February 2022, Bragg backtracked slightly on his policies, sending out a memo that made it clear to all of his employees that any offense involving a firearm would be prosecuted as a felony—reversing the stance he had taken just a month earlier.
The Prague office was also hit with controversy when it tried to sue Jose Alba, a 61-year-old bodega worker, for stabbing a man who attacked him over a bag of chips. Bragg later dropped the charges against Alba.
Crime rates rose in New York City in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic (before Bragg took office) after a mostly decade-long downward trend. Major crimes are up 22 percent in 2022 – with Bragg taking office on the first day of that year.
New York recorded 438 murders in 2022 — up from 319 in 2019 before the pandemic. Thefts were up 43 percent in 2022 compared to 2019 and criminal assaults, up 32 percent.
From April 2022 to April 2023, major crimes remained roughly the same, although murders, shootings, and robberies decreased.
The city is even safer in 2022 than it was during a dangerous period in the 1980s and 1990s — murders and robberies are down 80 percent in 2022 compared to 1990, and rapes are down 50 percent.
