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On Monday, the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, an ally of Donald Trump, will hold a field hearing in New York City called “Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan.” A statement presents the hearing as an examination of how, the Judiciary Committee says, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s policies have “led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.”

In response, Bragg’s office criticized Jordan’s hearing as “a political stunt” and noted that data released by the New York Police Department shows that crime is down in Manhattan with respect to murders, robberies, robberies and more through April 2, compared to the same period last year.

In reality, this hearing led by Jordan is not intended to stop crime but to defend Trump, who was recently indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on 34 felonies. Trump has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges stemming from an investigation into a hush payment to an adult film actress. The former president also faces criminal investigations in other jurisdictions for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Bragg sued Jordan and his committee last week in federal court, accusing the Judiciary Committee chairman of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office over its investigation and prosecution of Trump by demanding confidential documents and testimony.

While Jordan and his committee seem focused on discrediting the Trump investigation, why aren’t they investigating two recent bombshell ProPublica reports that raised red flags about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ financial relationship with Republican megadonor Harlan Crow? After all, the House Judiciary Committee’s website explains that it has jurisdiction over “matters relating to the administration of justice in the federal courts,” for which the revelations about Thomas fit perfectly.

First, we learned in early April that Crow had provided Thomas and his wife, Ginni, for decades with luxury vacations, including on the donor’s yacht and private jet to far-flung places like Indonesia and New Zealand. That information was never revealed to the public. (In a rare public statement, Thomas responded that he had been told at the time that he did not have to report travel. The judge said the guidelines for reporting personal hospitality have recently changed. “And, of course, it is my intention to follow this guidance in the future,” he said.)

Then on Thursday, ProPublica reported that Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal that involved the sale of three properties he and his family owned in Savannah, Georgia, to the same Republican mega-donor, Crow. One of Crow’s companies made the purchases for $133,363, according to ProPublica. A federal disclosure law passed after Watergate requires Supreme Court justices and other officials to make public the details of most real estate sales over $1,000.

As ProPublica detailed, the federal disclosure form Thomas filed for that year included a space to report the identity of the buyer in any private transaction, but Thomas left that space blank. Four ethics law experts told ProPublica that Thomas’ failure to report appears to be a violation of the law. (Thomas did not respond to ProPublica’s questions about his report; CNN has reached out to the Supreme Court and Thomas for comment.)

The House Judiciary Committee has long addressed issues like those surrounding Thomas. In fact, the committee is where investigations and impeachment trials of federal judges often begin.

A recent example came in 2010 with Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr., whom the committee investigated and recommended for impeachment.

The committee’s Impeachment Task Force said evidence showed Porteous “intentionally made false statements and representations under penalty of perjury, participated in a corrupt bribery scheme, solicited and accepted illegal gifts, and intentionally misled the Senate during his confirmation process.” The Senate subsequently found Porteous guilty of four articles of impeachment and removed him from office.

However, the Judiciary Committee has not issued statements or tweets raising alarm bells about Thomas. Instead, his Twitter account is full of repeated tweets complaining about it C-SPAN will not cover Field hearing Monday in New York. Worse yet, the committee retweeted the Republican Party. Tweet from Rep. Mary Miller defending Thomas as attacked “because he is a man of deep faith, who loves our country and believes in our Constitution.”

Jordan’s use of his committee to help Trump should surprise no one. The House committee’s Jan. 6 report called the Ohio Republican “a major player in President Trump’s efforts” to overturn the election. The report details the lawmaker’s efforts to help Trump, including on “January 2, 2021, Rep. Jordan led a conference call in which he, President Trump, and other members of Congress discussed strategies to delay the January 6 joint session.” As a result, the January 6 committee subpoenaed Jordan to testify, but he refused to cooperate.

Unlike the House panel, the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee announced after the Thomas report that it plans to hold a hearing “on the need to restore confidence in the ethical standards of the Supreme Court.” Beyond that, Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia sent a letter Friday requesting a referral of Thomas to the U.S. attorney general for “possible violations of the Government Ethics Act of 1978.”

The House Judiciary Committee website notes: “The Judiciary Committee has been called the lawyer of the House of Representatives.” Under Jordan, that description should be updated to indicate that the Judiciary Committee is now “Donald J. Trump’s lawyer.” And the worst part is that taxpayers are the ones paying for Jordan’s work on behalf of Trump.