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The chairman of the House judiciary committee, the Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, has issued a subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, an experienced New York prosecutor who resigned from the team working under the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, before Bragg brought felony charges against Donald Trump over his hush money payment to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
Jordan is a leading figure in Republican attempts to use their control of House committees to hit a range of Democratic targets – all while complaining about the “weaponisation” of the federal government by their political foes.