“We don’t have enough prisons if we are going to charge Americans who challenge the government," Kline stated. "That is speech that should be protected, not prosecuted.”
The prosecution has suggested that public attacks from Trump could intimidate witnesses or invite retaliation against the prosecutors bringing the case.
Unsurprisingly, support for the measure broke along party lines.
New York billionaire and Republican donor John Catsimatidis, who owns the radio station WABC where Giuliani was just suspended, said he had given the former mayor several warnings not to talk about the 2020 election.
GOP lawmakers signaled they are prepared to go to court to try to compel Pomerantz to testify.
Trump is expected to become the first former U.S. president to have a mug shot taken.
Prosecutor Nathan Wade and District Attorney Fani Willis, who are prosecuting former President Trump in Georgia, are alleged to have engaged in an improper relationship and benefitted financially from taxpayer dollars and the Georgia State Senate plans to probe the allegations.
Smith, for his part, has sought a Jan. 2, 2024, trial date, which would precede the Republican primary contest.
Congressional primary races in New York will be decided in August.
Waltz said “all aspects of our national power” should be used to defeat threats from the cartels and transnational gangs.