House Judiciary GOP calls on appellate courts to 'reverse the verdict' in NY v. Trump in new staff report

EXCLUSIVE: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan "worked together to deprive" former President Trump of "his constitutional and legal rights," the House Judiciary Committee said in a new staff report exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, saying their findings should prompt appellate courts to "reverse the verdict."

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the interim staff report created by the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

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The report, titled "Lawfare: How the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a New York State Judge Violated the Constitutional and Legal Rights of President Donald J. Trump," spanning 35-pages, outlines the committee’s findings since it launched its probe into the matter in March 2023.

Trump was found guilty in May on all counts following a six-week-long trial — the first of a former President of the United States. Bragg, in April 2023, had charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump had pleaded not guilty. The former president has vowed to appeal the verdict.

The committee has said that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump was politically motivated, and "opened the door for future prosecutions of a former president — or current candidate — that would be widely perceived as politically motivated."

The report revealed that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump suffered from "severe legal and procedural defects."

The committees investigated "the use of lawfare tactics" and sought to expose "the two-tiered justice system that extends from the highest offices in the Department of Justice to the offices of politically