by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, April 19 – For weeks, a media spotlight has been on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including photographers waiting on Hogan Place and demonstrators on both sides in Collect Pond Park.
On April 11, Bragg reached south of Worth Street and filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The assigned District Judge later issued a scheduling order: "The Court will hold a hearing on Plaintiff's motion on April 19, 2023 at 2:00 PM in Courtroom 18C of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse. (Signed by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil on 4/11/2023)."
Inner City Press live tweeted it, thread here
Two hours later, Bragg's request was denied, starting: "he request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. for a temporary restraining order, enjoining enforcement of the subpoena issued to Mark F. Pomerantz by the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Jim Jordan, is DENIED. The subpoena was issued with a “valid legislative purpose” in connection with the “broad” and “indispensable” congressional power to “conduct investigations.” It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection. Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law."
The case is Bragg v. Jordan, et al., 23-cv-3032 (Vykocil)
More including analysis on Substack here
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