{"id":36537,"date":"2019-05-21T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36537"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:11:52","slug":"here-comes-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/here-comes-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten and the Republican Reich will stop at nothing to obstruct justice.  The are so afraid that the truth will emerge, before they can steal another election that they are desperate.  They are illegally refusing to submit to legitimate congressional subpoenas.  And why do we see light at the end of that tunnel?  Here comes the judge.<\/font><\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress, a Federal District Court judge ruled on Monday, rejecting his legal team\u2019s argument that lawmakers had no legitimate power to subpoena the files. <\/p>\n

But Mr. Trump vowed that his legal team would appeal rather than permit the firm, Mazars USA, to comply with the subpoena and the ruling, so the legal fight is far from over. <\/p>\n

The ruling by the judge, Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, was an early judicial test of the president\u2019s vow to systematically stonewall \u201call\u201d subpoenas by House Democrats<\/a>, stymieing their ability to perform oversight of Mr. Trump and the executive branch after winning control of the chamber in last year\u2019s midterm elections. <\/p>\n

[Read the ruling.<\/a>] <\/p>\n

Mr. Trump\u2019s legal team, led by William S. Consovoy, had argued that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform had no legitimate legislative purpose in seeking Mr. Trump\u2019s financial records and was just trying to dig up dirt \u2014 like finding out whether the president broke any laws \u2014 for political reasons, so the subpoena exceeded its constitutional authority.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> covered the story in depth. (15:27)<\/font><\/p>\n