[ April 18, 2024 ]
A group of House Republicans led by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., moved to defund Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg after he indicted former President Donald Trump on bogus criminal charges last week.
There is something terrible wrong with the America system of “justice” if radical District Attorneys wield the powers of their office as a club against good and the innocent, while aiding, abetting and releasing violent criminals onto our streets.
Rep. Andy Biggs has introduced two bills to defund the Manhattan District Attorney’s (DA) Office following the indictment of President Donald Trump.
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“As the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, I will not allow District Attorney Alvin Bragg to misuse federal resources sent by Congress to fund the weaponized prosecution of a former U.S. president, while blatantly ignoring soaring crime in New York City.
“Bragg has repeatedly made clear his top priority as District Attorney is to leverage the legal system to target conservatives,” Biggs said. “I will use every tool I have to protect conservatives and to restore impartiality in our judicial institutions.”
Biggs introduced two bills on April 13 intended to address these concerns.
Rep. Biggs Introduces Bills to Defund Manhattan DA Office
By: Truth Press, April 15
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) has introduced two bills to defund the Manhattan District Attorney’s (DA) Office following the indictment of President Donald Trump.
Trump was indicted in early April on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. But critics have called the case “weak,” suggesting political motives behind the move.
In a comment emailed to the Epoch Times about the bills, Biggs wrote:
“As the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, I will not allow District Attorney Alvin Bragg to misuse federal resources sent by Congress to fund the weaponized prosecution of a former U.S. president, while blatantly ignoring soaring crime in New York City.
“Bragg has repeatedly made clear his top priority as District Attorney is to leverage the legal system to target conservatives,” Biggs said. “I will use every tool I have to protect conservatives and to restore impartiality in our judicial institutions.”
Biggs introduced two bills on April 13 intended to address these concerns.
The first bill, the Accountability for Lawless Violence In Our Neighborhoods Act, or the ALVIN Act, would prohibit federal funds from being awarded to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and requires the Office to repay federal funds granted after Jan. 1, 2022.
The second bill, the No Federal Funds for Political Prosecutions Act, would prohibit state or local law enforcement agencies from using funds or property seized through asset forfeiture to investigate or prosecute the president, vice president, or a candidate for the office of president in a criminal case.
Biggs added that it was concerning to see the Manhattan DA’s office wasting federal resources for political purposes instead of addressing serious crimes in the city.
“[W]ith an almost insurmountable national debt that exceeds $31 trillion, the nation simply cannot afford to support Mr. Bragg’s politicization of the criminal justice system,” Biggs said.
New York City, like most other metropolitan areas across the United States, has seen a major spike in violent crimes over the past two years.
Following the death of George Floyd, fringe positions like defunding the police and minimizing penalties for violent crime became more mainstream among many left-wing prosecutors and DAs.
As DA, Bragg has reduced more than half of the felony charges that came through his office to misdemeanors. Republicans say this approach to law enforcement is in part responsible for the massive increase in violent crime.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has indicated his own opposition to the prosecution of Trump. Thus, the bill could stand for a vote in the lower chamber.
Prospects for the bills are less sanguine in the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority. Democrats are likely to oppose the legislation, as they have accused Republicans of attempting to meddle in a legal matter.
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9 Comments
1 year ago
The way I see it, the entire federal government should be defunded.
I could fill the page with hostilities by our own federal government, and I could fill the page with the damages and body count they are responsible for.
Who do I sue for damages? If I won, they would still retire in luxury and make the next generation pay the bill.
D
1 year ago
You will not get an ASSministration any worse unless it is the previous ovomit ASSministration or the lying loons of trudope.
1 year ago
The first 4 counts of the PHONY indictments by the Soros
funded political opposition, District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., lists
February 14, 2017 as the FIRST date of offense, pretty much almost a FULL MONTH
LATER; so all 34 indictments IMMEDIATELY are clearly out of the scope of Donald
Trump’s association – participation – oversight of the same. which he ended January 19, 2017,
having resigned from 400 companies and publishing the same.
CNN and many others reported this resignation in January 2017,
and many of their January 2017 posts are of Trump THEN separating himself are STILL UP.
Count 5 involves the attorney Michael Cohen at the Donald
Trump Revocable Trust on February 16, 2017 and a false business record entry on
March 16, 2017 which appears to be tied in (on its face) to the March 17, 2017
issues of counts 6 and 7 of the phony 34 count indictment.
Count 8 again involves Attorney Michael Cohen, now on April
13, 2017 for the second 4 of the 34 counts as being the lone felony law breaker
at hand that any indictment could or should have been made.
Counts 9 and 10 deal with 2 more falsifying business entries
that allegedly happened on June 19, 2017, a full 5 months after Donald Trump
was fully separated by association – participation – oversight of the same; and
it is attorney Michael Cohen who is to blame.
Counts 11 and 12 then appear to be founded on the premise of
counts 9 and 10, but happening a month earlier on May 22, 2017, where it
involves attorney Michael Cohen’s invoice. So why isn’t Cohen charged
here? He is now involved with Counts 5 through 12 of these indictments as
the sole pain in the ass alleged falsifier so far.
On and on we go, all through the rest of the 34 counts, it is
attorney Michael Cohen who falsified business records, until the end or 34th
count on December 5, 2017. The 34 counts read as if a turning of State’s
Evidence, MANUFACTURED to read upon an innocent party or client for the sins of
a crooked and CONVICTED Attorney.
A quick read should have been enough for any real judge to toss the charges as FRIVOLOUS.
Not Frivolous:
“legal points arguable on their merits (and therefore not frivolous).”
Anders v. California, 386 U. S. 738 (1967) @ 344
Frivolous:
“By logical extension, a complaint, containing as it does both factual allegations and legal conclusions, is frivolous where it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact. As …when applied to a complaint, embraces not only the inarguable legal conclusion, but also the fanciful factual allegation.”
Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319 (1989) 325
Cornell Law School defines “frivolous” as:
“a bad faith claim,
refers to a lawsuit, motion or appeal that is intended to harass, delay or embarrass the opposition.
A claim is frivolous when the claim lacks any arguable basis either in law or in fact Neitze v. Williams,
490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989).
That means, in a frivolous claim, either:
“(1) “the ‘factual contentions are clearly baseless,’ such as when allegations are the product of delusion or fantasy;”
or (2) “the claim is ‘based on an indisputably meritless legal theory.'”
Livingston v. Adirondack Beverage Co., 141 F.3d 434, 437 (2d Cir. 1998).”
Bragg should be disbarred and both he and the Manhattan District Attorney office held civilly liable, with Bragg getting imprisonment besides.
1 year ago
Fat Al brags about being the big man in NYC while letting his black buddies free after they break the Law but make sure a BS charge goes against Trump meanwhile Nasty Peelois says. ”Trump going to Court gives him the chance to prove his innocence”.. Wait a damn minute Nasty babe, he is innocent until YOU prove him guilty, this is American Law after all, innocent until proven guilty…
and shes a Lawyer… Go figure..
This is such a set up, tell a lie, tell a big one and tell it often and it will become truth by its own was once famously quoted by a wee Nazi prick…
This is exactly what the USA MSM is doing today, over and over and over again.
1 year ago
Too many Jewish liberals and OC (Occasional Cortex) have the power to stop it!
1 year ago
Alvin Bragg must be hanged for Treason.
Bragg is going after Trump solely to try to stop his bid for President.
Bragg in interfering with the 2024 election
Bragg, by interfering with the coming election, is trying to overthrow the Constitutional process of the continuance of American government.
Bragg is attempting to overthrow the Constitution and the Republic.
Bragg is engaging in an Act of War against the Constitution and the Republic, and, is, BY DEFINITION, and Act of Treason.
The punishment for Treason is DEATH.
Let Justice Prevail …… swift and sure.
D
1 year ago
The name similarity is hilarious. Alvin Bragg and Andy Biggs.
