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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan takes his committee on the road, holding a field hearing in downtown New York to highlight the city's soaring crime,

and to contrast it with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump.

What if anything did it accomplish?

And while the Senate rewelcomes some members after absences for health problems, Senator Dianne Feinstein remains out of commission and Democrat struggle to find a way to break the resulting log jam on judicial nominees.

We'll talk about where that fight goes next. Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kim Strassel, and I am joined today by my amazing colleagues, Bill McGurne and Maneu Pueblo, it's been about two weeks since New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought 34 charges against Donald Trump.

The first time in U.S. history, a former President has faced criminal charges. Republicans have been furious about this with some justification given what a lot of legal scholars have noted as a lot of weakness with those charges.

But one response on Monday morning, Ohio's Jim Jordan and his committee decamped to the Javits Federal Building of Manhattan to hold a hearing entitled victims of violent crime in Manhattan, looking into the policies and the record of Mr. Bragg.

Let's start by listening to two clips from the opening statements that hearing the first from Jim Jordan, the chair of the judiciary, and then from New York's very own Jerry Nadler, the ranking member.

In this country, justice is supposed to be blind, regardless of race, religion or creed. However, here in Manhattan, the scales of justice are weighed down by politics.

For the District Attorney Justice isn't blind, it's about looking for opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda.

Rather than enforcing the law of the DA is using his office to do the bidding of left-wing campaign funders. He's taken his soft on crime approach to the real criminals.

Let me be very clear. We are here today in law in Manhattan for one reason and one reason only. The chairman is doing the bidding of Donald Trump.

Committee Republicans designed this hearing to intimidate and deter the duly elected District Attorney of Manhattan from doing the work as constituents elected him to do.

They are using their public offices and the resources of this committee to protect their political patron, Donald Trump. It is an outrageous abuse of power.

It is to use the chairman's favor term, a weaponization of the House Judiciary Committee.

So Bill, you heard them both there. Look, it's true Republicans were using this to highlight what is clearly a crime problem in New York and what they would like the public to understand is the politicized nature, therefore, of Bragg's case against Trump.

Democrats derided it as a sham, a smear stunt. The whole thing was a little bit of a circus. You could hear protesters chanting from outside the room.

They were shouting out in the streets with signs saying lock a gym up. That would be a reference to Jim Jordan interruptions in the hearing.

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