House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) discussed on Tuesday his plans for a “three-pronged approach” to reign in the partisan Biden Department of Justice.
While speaking at a press conference, Johnson told reporters that House Republicans plan to use legislation, congressional oversight, and the appropriations process against the DOJ after former President Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges in a Manhattan case plagued by political bias.
“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. “And that, at the end of the day, is something that should concern every single one of us. And I think it does.”
In the days following the verdict, Republican lawmakers and legal groups have called for an investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hiring of Matthew Colangelo, a former Biden DOJ employee. In the early days of the Biden Administration, Colangelo served as the Acting Associate Attorney General, the third most senior position in the department.
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He then left the DOJ for a low-level prosecutor job with Bragg’s office and