House committee threatens to force Arlington prosecutor to send documents in bias investigation
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House committee threatens to force Arlington prosecutor to send documents in bias investigation
By Dan Egitto
Published January 16, 2026 at 9:15AM
Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti at an anti-ICE rally in Courthouse this month (staff photo by Dan Egitto)
The House Judiciary Committee is threatening to legally force Arlington’s commonwealth’s attorney to send documents related to her handling of an ongoing criminal investigation.
In the latest escalation of a months-long dispute,* Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) argued that he has the authority to compel Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti to submit a wide variety of materials related to her requesting limits on the search and seizure** of an Arlington activist’s cellphone.
Dehghani-Tafti has so far refused*** to send any of these documents, arguing that the Judiciary Committee lacks authority over a local prosecutor in this context. But Jordan says she is obligated to comply with his request, in part because he says he needs the documents to consider possible legislative changes. ... “If necessary, the Committee may resort to compulsory process to obtain the required materials,” Jordan wrote in a Tuesday letter.
The congressman suggested that Dehghani-Tafti “deliberately undermined ongoing investigations for political purposes” in the case in which Virginia State Police seized an activist’s mobile device, alleging that her activity outside the North Arlington home**** of White House chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller may have amounted to a form of illegal intimidation or harassment.*****
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* https://www.arlnow.com/2025/11/14/developing-house-judiciary-committee-chair-launches-inquiry-into-arlingtons-top-prosecutor/
** https://www.arlnow.com/2025/11/10/top-local-attorneys-clash-with-miyares-and-feds-over-seizure-of-activists-cell-phone/
*** https://www.arlnow.com/2025/12/02/arlingtons-top-prosecutor-fires-back-at-house-committee-over-allegations-of-political-bias/
**** https://www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/top-white-house-official-selling-arlington-home-after-activists-write-chalk-messages-on-sidewalk/
***** https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter6/section18.2-186.4/
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