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Using a tactical vehicle, New York City police enter an upper floor of Hamilton Hall on the Columbia University campus in New York Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building was taken over by protesters earlier Tuesday. Hundreds of police officers swept into Columbia University on Tuesday night to end a pro-Palestinian occupation of an administration building and sweep away a protest encampment, acting after the school’s president said there was no other way to ensure safety and restore order on campus.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg blasted for dropping cases against suspects in Columbia building takeover

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Representative Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., listens as former President Donald Trump talks with the media at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz calls for subpoenaing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his deputy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Donald Trump, far left, watches as defense attorney Emil Bove questions Robert Costello, right, with Judge Juan Merchan presiding in Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 20, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Prosecution still in search of a crime in Trump’s Manhattan trial

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, left, arrives at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Bragg’s flimsy Trump case crumbles

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Former US President Donald Trump, right, sitting next to lawyer Todd Blanche, attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, Tuesday April 23, 2024. Before testimony resumes Tuesday, the judge will hold a hearing on prosecutors' request to sanction and fine Trump over social media posts they say violate a gag order prohibiting him from attacking key witnesses. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool via AP)

Trump conviction in hush money trial would likely be tossed, but after November, legal experts say

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg gestures while speaking during a news conference Feb. 22, 2024, in New York. As he prepares to bring the first of Donald Trump's four criminal prosecutions to trial, Bragg finds himself at the center of a political firestorm. The upcoming trial, over hush money payments allegedly made by Trump during the 2016 election, will test Bragg's efforts to portray himself as apolitical in the face of relentless attacks from Trump and his supporters. The trial is scheduled to begin on Monday, April 15. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Trump’s hush money criminal trial isn’t about politics

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg gestures speaks during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in New York. A man wanted in the killing of a woman found bludgeoned to death with an iron in a Manhattan hotel was apprehended in Arizona this week. But in a legal twist, Arizona officials are balking at sending him to New York to answer to authorities. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Manhattan DA fights Trump’s request for delay in hush money trial over media coverage

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

This image taken from video provided by the New York City Police Department shows police officers confronting a group near New York's Times Square, Jan. 27, 2024, bringing a man in a bright yellow coat down to the sidewalk and the chaotic scene that unfolds as at least half a dozen bystanders are seen kicking at the officers, then trying to pry them off the man. (New York City Police Department via AP)

Man charged with attacking police in Times Square, vilified in Trump ad, was misidentified, DA says

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Transgender activist Cecilia Gentili poses for a photo at the offices of the Oxford University Press in New York on April 24, 2014. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of Gentili, which was held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan and drew a large audience on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Religious group calls mockery of faith at a transgender funeral in NYC a ‘hate crime’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Mayor Eric Adams, left, listens as District Attorney Alvin Bragg, right, speaks during a press conference, where several charges for migrants involved in a Times Square brawl with police, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Manhattan prosecutor announces new indictments in Times Square brawl between police and migrants

By Jake Offenhartz - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Appeals court halts House interview with ex-Trump prosecutor

By Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Federal Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, weighing whether House Republicans can question a former prosecutor about the Manhattan criminal case against former President Donald Trump, posed dozens of questions, in New York, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to lawyers on both sides, asking them to parse thorny issues of sovereignty, separation of powers and Congressional oversight arising from Trump's historic indictment. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Judge to rule in U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s probe of N.Y. prosecutor

By Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Alvin Bragg Above the Law Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Abusing prosecutorial power is nothing to Bragg about

By Curtis Hill

George Soros funded pro-criminal prosecutors Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

George Soros has funded 75 pro-criminal prosecutors to the tune of $40M

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him, trying to embarrass him on his home turf. The House Judiciary Committee is holding a field hearing Monday, April 17, near the offices of Bragg. The committee’s Republican majority is billing it as an examination of the Democrat’s “pro-crime, anti-victim” policies. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump’s House GOP allies take fight to Manhattan DA’s turf

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, Feb. 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House Judiciary Committee members to include New York lawmakers in field hearing focused on crime

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Manhattan DA sues Rep. Jordan over Trump indictment inquiry

By Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

N.Y. DA Alvin Bragg sues Rep. Jim Jordan over alleged interference in Donald Trump indictment

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio talks to Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg in the hot seat as Rep. Jim Jordan plans field hearing on crime

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden returns a salute before boarding Air Force One at Nantucket Memorial Airport in Nantucket, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Biden is heading back to Washington after spending the Thanksgiving Day holiday in Nantucket with family. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Buckle up for a new era of political payback as Trump’s indictment prompts greater scrutiny of Biden

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times