Tag Archives: Jim Jordan

Jordan Subpoenas Citibank For Helping Catch Rioters

CNBC reports: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to Citibank on Thursday, demanding information about whether the bank gave law enforcement information about customer transactions in the days surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The subpoena, obtained exclusively by CNBC, came after Jordan previously requested that several financial institutions, including Citibank, provide …

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Jordan: “Hillbillies Are So Sick Of Attacks On Trump”

“You look at the poll numbers earlier in the week, it’s it’s 54 to 17 in the Republican primary. But more importantly, he’s dead even with Joe Biden in The New York Times poll. So, my gut tells me, if that’s what The New York Times is saying, it’s probably better for President Trump in another poll. And I think …

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Jordan Spreads RFK’s Anti-Vax Lie About Hank Aaron

The Daily Beast reports: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) amplified a conspiracy theory peddled by anti-vaccine conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, claiming the longshot Democratic presidential candidate was “just pointing out facts” when he tied baseball legend Hank Aaron’s death to the COVID-19 vaccine. During yet another one of Jordan’s hearings on the “weaponization” of the …

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Jordan Threatens To Hold Zuckerberg In Contempt

The Hill reports: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is considering holding Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress. Fox Business was the first to report on Jordan’s potential move, with sources telling the news outlet Meta has not provided any internal communications on its censorship processes. Zuckerberg was among five tech company heads who received subpoenas in …

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Jordan Accuses Threads Of Censoring Right Wingers

The Hill reports: House Republicans asked Meta Monday about content moderation on its new platform Threads, citing concerns about free speech violations. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to send documents about Threads’ content moderation practices to the committee by the end of July. Jordan cited a subpoena sent to Meta …

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Jordan Goes After Wall Street Giants On Climate Change

Bloomberg News reports: House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and two other House Republicans fired off letters to financial industry giants including BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., and State Street, contending that their efforts to combat climate change could violate US antitrust law. The lawmakers warned in the letters on Thursday that agreements to decarbonize their assets “and reduce emissions to …

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DOJ Rejects Jordan’s Demand For Info On Trump Probe

Congress Minutes reports: The Justice Department largely rejected House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan’s request for information related to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation involving former President Donald Trump. The Justice Department, responding to that request on Friday, told Jordan that he was requesting “non-public information about an ongoing criminal investigation and prosecution by a Special Counsel.” DOJ warned that …

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House Republicans’ FBI “Whistleblower” Was Previously Suspended For Leaking Sensitive Info To Project Veritas

NBC News reports: Garret O’Boyle, an FBI agent who was presented in a public hearing by House Republicans as a whistleblower, was suspended by the bureau because internal investigators had concluded that he leaked sensitive investigative information to the right-wing group Project Veritas, according to a bureau official. House Democrats are now accusing O’Boyle of lying to the committee and …

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Jordan Seeks DOJ Memo On Appointing Special Counsel

The Hill reports: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is asking the Justice Department to break down the scope of special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into former President Trump amid signs he may be wrapping his investigation. The letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland — Jordan’s second in a week — seeks the memo that formalized Smith’s appointment and his …

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Jordan’s “Whistleblowers” Are Trump-Paid J6 Nutbags

NBC News reports: Two of the three self-proclaimed FBI whistleblowers who testified before a House subcommittee on Thursday had their security clearances revoked because their conduct on Jan. 6 cases brought into question their allegiance to the United States, a bureau official wrote in a letter to members of Congress this week. A third FBI employee, a special agent who …

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Judge Upholds Jordan’s Subpoena Of NY Ex-Prosecutor

USA Today reports: A federal judge in New York upheld on Wednesday a congressional subpoena for a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office to testify about the investigation of Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil ruled that Mark Pomerantz would have to testify before the House Judiciary Committee in its investigation of Bragg. Judiciary Chairman …

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Protesters Disrupt Jordan’s Anti-Bragg NYC Hearing

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime. The House Judiciary Committee, led by Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, held a field …

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Today: GOP Holds “Field Hearing” On Bragg In NYC

The Associated Press reports: Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass him on his home turf partly by falsely portraying New York City as a place overrun by crime. The House Judiciary Committee, led by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, is holding a field hearing Monday …

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Jordan Lies That Bragg Used Federal Funds On Trump

Law & Crime reports: After being sued in federal court, Rep. Jim Jordan tried to justify meddling in a local criminal investigation by spinning it as a matter of responsible accounting. Jordan claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted to using “federal funds” to indict former President Donald Trump. The only problem is: Bragg actually said the opposite, twice. …

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Bragg Sues Jim Jordan For Interfering In Trump Case

The New York Times reports: The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump. The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and …

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Jordan Subpoenas FBI Head Over “Anti-Catholic Bias”

The Hill reports: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray in connection with a now-withdrawn memo that explored avenues for gaining information on white supremacists’ interaction with local Catholic churches. The memo, a product of the Richmond, Va., FBI field office, discussed meeting with church leaders to review “the warning signs of …

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Jordan Seeks Testimony From Another NYC Prosecutor

Via press release from Rep. Jim Jordan: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Matthew Colangelo, Senior Counsel to New York County District Attorney’s Office, requesting testimony and documents in furtherance of the Committee’s oversight of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s unprecedented prosecutorial conduct. Colangelo, a former Biden Department of Justice official and senior attorney at the …

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Bragg Accuses GOP Of “Harassment And Intimidation”

From the office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg: The House GOP continues to attempt to undermine an active investigation and ongoing New York criminal case with an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation. Repeated efforts to weaken state and local law enforcement actions are an abuse of power and will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law. …

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Jordan Subpoenas Former Manhattan Prosecutor

The Hill reports: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday subpoenaed a former Manhattan District Attorney’s Office prosecutor who had worked on the office’s investigation into hush money payments from former President Trump. The move escalates a fledgling investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office that began shortly after Trump predicted his arrest in connection with the …

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House GOP May Seek To Shield Trump From NY Charges

The Independent reports: A trio of House Republican committee chairs say the House of Representatives could soon take up legislation to strip state and local prosecutors of the authority to prosecute former presidents in response to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s potential indictment of former president Donald Trump. In a letter to Mr Bragg, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, …

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