Just before the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued the subpoena for Donald Trump to appear in court, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans sent a letter to Bragg demanding documents and testimony related to the possible indictment. The letter declared this an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” even though the Grand Jury had not completed its deliberations and specific charges that might be issues were still unknown.
Demanding that a criminal law enforcement officer turn over documents related to his investigation is clearly interfering with his investigation and constitutes an obstruction of justice, which is a crime. When this happens across state lines, as it did in this instance (the demand being made in Congress in Washington, DC and the investigation taking place in New York) it becomes a federal crime.
This raises the question, should those members of Congress who participated in this demand be prosecuted for obstruction of justice?
PS If that occurred, it would probably be the first time that a former president caused members of Congress to be prosecuted for a crime – another first for Trump.