Federal judge suggests he is skeptical of President Trump’s efforts to block Congress from obtaining some of his financial records; says he expects to make a ruling “promptly.”
A federal judge suggests he is skeptical of President Donald Trump’s efforts to block Congress from obtaining some of his financial records.
House Democrats have said court battles are inevitable as they have made dozens of requests for documents and witnesses that the White House and others in the administration have rebuffed. Democrats also have issued subpoenas for six years of Trump’s tax documents and given Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig a deadline of this coming Friday to deliver them.
Mehta, who was nominated to his position by President Barack Obama, suggested during the hearing that Congress has wide latitude to investigate. He told Trump lawyer William Consovoy that there isn’t a case since 1880 where the Supreme Court or an appeals court found that Congress overstepped its boundaries in issuing a subpoena.
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