Jerry Nadler's Twilight Zone Judiciary Committee hearing strategy

Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has a strategy for this morning's field hearing in New York City. Jerry Nadler's strategy is -- wait for it -- to insist that the Big Apple's "crime is only an illusion manufactured by the party’s political enemies." Nadler "said he will come out swinging in defense of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg during the panel’s Monday hearing in New York."

Jim Jordan doesn't have to come up with a bizarre strategy like Nadler does. Jordan's Republican panelists just have to ask probing questions of today's witnesses. Scheduled to testify today are "a bodega worker, the mother of a homicide victim, and a woman whose boyfriend was killed." Jennifer Harrison, a victims-rights advocate who has been called by Republicans to testify at the Monday hearing, said "I dare Jerry Nadler to ask me or [crime victims] to our faces … and tell us why the lives that are being destroyed here in New York City don’t matter [just] because it’s happening elsewhere."

Personally, I can't wait to get Nadler's reaction to Jose Alba, the 61-year-old bodega owner who got charged with second-degree murder for defending himself against Austin Simon, a 37-year-old released criminal who tried attacking Alba. The video speaks for itself:

How will Nadler justify rationalize DA Bragg's decision to initially charge Alba with Second Degree murder? Further, how will Nadler explain why the judge threw out the charges against Alba?

City crime statistics belie Nadler’s rosy assessment. Overall violent crime surged in Manhattan South by 34% and Manhattan North by 14.5% in 2022, Bragg’s first year in office, compared to 2021.
So much for Nadler's strategy. At this point, Nadler is acting more like a defense attorney who's defending a guilty person while Chairman Jordan's team has mountains of forensic evidence against the defendant.

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