Democrats select a New York congressman to face off against Republicans at the Alvin Bragg hearing: The GOP rails against the escalation of violence in his district as he is being conscripted in.
Democrats choose a New York representative to oppose Republicans at the Alvin Bragg hearing: As he is drafted in, the GOP lashes out at the rise in violence in his district.
Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman will be waived on to the panel by his colleagues, according to a source familiar with the committee's plans. Goldman represents Manhattan-Brooklyn, which includes the Javitz Federal Building, where the panel will hear witness testimony Monday at 10 a.m. Republicans, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, have waived Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik onto their panel.
For Monday's important criminal hearing, Judiciary Committee members are bringing in their New Yorker colleagues.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the conference chair, has been waived onto the Republican panel for the field hearing intended to criticize Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the city's criminal justice system, led by Chairman Jim Jordan.
According to a source knowledgeable about the committee's activities, Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman will be given the go-ahead to join the panel by his fellow Democrats. The Javitz Federal Building is a part of his Manhattan-Brooklyn district, and on Monday at 10 a.m., the panel will hear witness testimony there.
Judiciary Committee members are hauling in their New Yorker colleagues for Monday's high-profile crime hearing.
Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman will be cleared to join the panel by his colleagues, a source familiar with the committee's plans told DailyMail.com. His Manhattan-Brooklyn district includes the Javitz Federal Building, where the panel will hear witness testimony Monday at 10 a.m.
Stefanik will join a group of Judiciary Republicans eager to portray Bragg as a liberal prosecutor supported by George Soros who is more concerned with bringing down Trump than with local crime.
The lone member of the House GOP leadership from New York State, the congresswoman represents a district several hours north of New York City.
Goldman was the senior counsel for House Democrats when they impeached Trump after a phone discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he delayed Congressionally-authorized military funding while urging the leader to begin an inquiry into Trump's then-opponent, President Joe Biden.
In a TV interview after declaring his candidacy, he stated: "I am running for Congress and this new 10th district because I want to get on the front lines and back in the trenches like I did during the impeachment." He made prosecuting Trump a focal point of his congressional campaign.
Bragg and Goldman are both experienced prosecutors who have a lengthy history of involvement in the city's criminal justice system. Republicans claim to have similar mild criminal justice policies.
President Biden later approved the D.C. crime bill, and Goldman voted against a resolution of disapproval for it. In 2022, Goldman argued that more social workers and mental health professionals, rather than police officers, should be called to domestic violence confrontations.
He contributed $7,500 to the campaign of 'friend and former [Southern District of New York] colleague' Bragg for district attorney in 2021. The father of five, 47, held a Bragg fundraiser in his multimillion-dollar Tribeca residence.
Ritchie Fife, a previous campaign advisor for Bragg and a prominent government official, provided advice to Goldman's campaign as well. Five months after serving as the Bragg campaign's finance director, Rei Ma took on the same role for Goldman.
'Donald Trump and what's at risk for the next #ManhattanDA,' was the topic of a fundraiser held by Bragg and Goldman in April 2021.
He stated at a debate in August 2022: "We cannot allow people to just keep going through the system because it demoralizes the police and creates a sense of danger for everyone."
Most misdemeanors and non-violent felonies are no longer eligible for bail according to the city's 2019 renovation.
Days after the discussion in August 2022, Goldman said that he opposed cash bail.
The then-candidate declared, "I don't agree with the fundamental premise of [cash] bail, which is that people shouldn't stay in jail because they can't pay bail."
When asked about the bail reform, he responded, "Whether or not the data says that it's safe or not, there is a perception in the city that it is not safe." 'And among the causes of that is the ongoing recidivism," the speaker continues.
The congressman has argued for "getting non-violent offenders out of the system" and stated in an interview on June 10 that, in his capacity as a prosecutor, he would "knowledgeably reduce crime in the city."
Goldman has long pushed for lower incarceration rates and a more "fair" judicial system.
In law school, he authored an article for the Stanford Law Review titled "The Modern-Day Literacy Test?: Felon Disenfranchisement and Race Discrimination," in which he seemed to support for the ability to vote for criminals. He has also pushed for the closure of Rikers Island prison.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was a book that Michelle Alexander and Goldman co-wrote while they were in law school.
Meanwhile, Bragg lowered 52% of felony charges to misdemeanors from the beginning of 2022, when he assumed office, and November of this year. When he did present a case, his office only succeeded in obtaining a conviction 51% of the time, which is a low percentage when compared to the district attorney's office in prior years.
Jordan was sued by Bragg earlier this week in an extraordinary step meant to prevent him from meddling with the Trump indictment.
. After the committee subpoenaed Bragg's former employee, sought records, and planned a field hearing in New York City to denigrate his office, the suit accused Jordan of making a 'brazen and unconstitutional attack' on the prosecution of Trump.
Jordan was accused of waging a 'transparent attempt to intimidate and destroy' Bragg in the 50-page lawsuit after he revealed 34 felony allegations against Trump last week for receiving hush money.
According to the New York Times, Bragg's attorneys are attempting to stop Jordan from subpoenaing Mark Pomerantz, who oversaw the office's probe into Trump until quitting after Bragg rejected his legal arguments. Later, he published a book discussing the need to charge Trump.
After taking office, Bragg, who ran on a platform of criminal justice reform, released the contentious "Day One" memo declaring that he would only pursue prison time in the most extreme circumstances.
Bragg slightly changed his rules in February 2022 by issuing a memo informing all of his employees that any crime involving a firearm would be prosecuted as a felony, reversing the position he had taken just a month earlier.
When Jose Alba, a 61-year-old bodega worker, fatally stabbed a man who attacked him over a bag of chips, Bragg's office came under fire. Later, Bragg dropped the accusations against Alba.
After a decade-long primarily downward trend, crime in New York City began to tick up in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic (before Bragg entered office). With Bragg taking office on January 1 of that year, major crime increased by around 22%.
In 2022, New York saw 438 homicides, up from 319 in the year before the pandemic in 2019. Robberies increased by 43% and felony assaults by 32% between 2022 and 2019.
Major crime is roughly the same between April 2022 and April 2023, but there are fewer murders, shootings, and burglaries.
Even in 2022, the city was far safer than it was during a difficult time in the 1980s and 1990s; murders and robberies were down 80% and rapes were down 50% respectively.
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