Jim Jordan Plays Trump’s Personal Attorney With New Subpoena
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The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Loren Merchan, the daughter of the judge presiding over Trump’s hush-money case.

The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed Loren Merchan, the daughter of the judge presiding over Trump’s hush-money case.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed a company run by the daughter of Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush-money case, over faulty allegations of political bias.

Loren Merchan, the president of Authentic Campaigns, a political consulting group that has worked with Democrats, became a focal point of Trump’s attacks against New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. The justice is expected to dole out the former president’s sentence for his hush-money trial on September 18.

    • @whotookkarl
      63•19 days ago

      The irony of someone like Jordan issuing a subpoena when they themselves are in violation of the same is too much

      • Funderpants
        34•19 days ago

        Facists love the law, as a tool to absolve themselves and make their facism legal, while lending legitimacy to their attacks on opponents.

        This is a good read: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/america-fascism-legal-phase

        Excerpt:

        For a far-right party to become viable in a democracy, it must present a face it can defend as moderate, and cultivate an ambiguous relationship to the extreme views and statements of its most explicit members. It must maintain a pretense of the rule of law, characteristically by projecting its own violations of it on to its opponents. In the case of the takeover of the mainstream rightwing party by a far-right anti-democratic movement, the pretense must be stronger. The movement must contend with members of that party who are faithful to procedural elements of democracy, such as the principle of one voter one vote, or that the loser of a fair election give up power – in the United States today, figures such as Adam Kinzinger and Elizabeth Cheney. A fascist social and political party faces pressure both to mask its connection to and to cultivate violent racist supporters, as well as its inherently anti-democratic agenda.