A federal judge partly upheld a subpoena that House Democrats issued for former president Trump’s tax records, ruling that a Supreme Court decision last year rendered portions of the subpoena unenforceable.
Oh for fucks sake.
Just ask New York.
Last year, the Supreme Court created a new test for subpoenas issued by Congress, mandating that courts “take adequate account of the significant separation of powers issues raised by congressional subpoenas for the President’s information.”
Unless, of course, the President is not a member of the fascist cult.
A more appropriate headline might be along the lines: “Federal Judge Now Says House Dems Cannot Get Most of Trump Tax Records He Previously Ruled They Were Entitled To See.”
To share grand jury materials with Congress? Nope.
OK, OK!
Just sick of the whole nonsense. Maybe ask New York to get moving a little faster!
Or ask New York for Trump’s state tax returns, which would have a great deal of the same information on them. I know New York was considering passing a law permitting them to respond to such a request from Congress, but don’t recall if they ever actually did so?
This is the case brought by House Oversight.
The other suit brought by House Ways and Means is still in front of Judge Trevor “I served on his transition committee and was appointed by him” McFadden who’s demonstrated he’s a team player and knows how to slow roll with the best of them.
Mehta found that while the subpoena was valid as far as it asks Mazars for documents relating to federal leases and potential Emoluments violations, asking for records about conflicts of interest was too broad.
So it’s now OK for Republicans in Congress to use a business, corporation, and the like to conduct business? It’s perfectly fine for the DOD, or any other agency to give contracts to businesses that a current, or even former President has control or interest in?
a Supreme Court decision last year rendered portions of the subpoena unenforceable.
Of course it did. SCOTUS is the most corrupt, overtly political institution setting irreversible policies with unmitigated impunity in America today.
If there is any institution that needs to be expanded in order to wrest it from right-wing control it is the Supreme Court. Term limits would also be in order; gerontocracy is lethal to societal advancement.
Mehta’s hands were tied by the Federalist Soc, er, Supreme Court.
The new justices don’t want people to find out they were appointed by a conman and a thief. And they really don’t want them to see the videotape of the super-secret initiation ritual Trump put them through.
I’m still waiting to learn who paid off Kav the Spaz’s mortgage, credit cards and bar tabs.
but not holding our breath…
"“The more Congress can invade the personal sphere of a former President, the greater the leverage Congress would have on a sitting President,” the opinion reads. "
Which matters if the sitting President is a lifelong criminal, otherwise maybe not so much.
Yeah I don’t get it. Congress could’ve got those two years ago. It makes no sense until you realize the septuagenarian Committee chairs are all institutionalists that are protecting Trump out of some misguided notion that it’s 1982 and Tip and Ron can just have lunch and solve all the problems.
In other words the orange onion has officially run out the clock.
Not grand jury info, NY has said it will provide the state returns if asked.
Yes, but this is specifically a battle over Trump’s federal returns. New York won its subpoena value over the federal returns, but those were given to the grand jury in Manhattan.
I don’t understand why investigating crimes wouldn’t be sufficient grounds. Trump was already involved with Deutschebank in a money laundering scheme that was brought by the State of New York and a large fine was paid. It’s time for the DOJ or Congress to expand that investigation.