Speaker Johnson announces plan to take on justice system following Trump conviction
by Mychael Schnell - 06/04/24 1:51 PM ET
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced a “three-pronged approach” Tuesday to go after the justice system following former President Trump’s conviction.
The plan, according to Johnson, includes using the appropriations process, legislation brought to the floor and Congress’s oversight authority to take on the Justice Department.
“All those things will be happening vigorously, because we have to do that, because the stakes are too high and because people are losing faith in our institutions,” Johnson said at a press conference. “And that, at the end of the day, is something that should concern every single one of us. And I think it does.”
The Speaker’s rollout comes less than a week after a 12-person jury found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case centered on a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels.
Johnson and other Republicans have railed at the verdict, accusing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) of having campaigned on prosecuting Trump, and taking aim at Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, as untrustworthy.
House Republicans have already begun carrying out elements of their three-pronged strategy.
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