NEW YORK — A House panel led by Donald Trump ally Jim Jordan said Monday that it will hold a hearing next week in Manhattan tying District Attorney Alvin Bragg to local violent crime — infuriating Democrats and intensifying the GOP’s attacks on the prosecutor who charged the former president.
The House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jordan, an Ohio congressman, said the highly unusual hearing will take place next Monday at the Javits Federal Building, less than three blocks from Bragg’s lower Manhattan office.
The committee said in a statement that the so-called field hearing will focus on crime victims, and examine how Bragg’s “policies have led to an increase in violent crime” in New York.
