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Judge sides with Democrats in Trump bank subpoena fight

LOL. Preet Bharara would know.

By ZACHARY WARMBRODT

05/22/2019 04:34 PM EDT
Updated 05/22/2019 08:04 PM EDT

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Ramos was unpersuaded by the Trump legal team’s arguments in favor of blocking the subpoenas, saying that any alleged “ulterior motives” of the committees did not impede their investigative powers and that the propriety of those motives was not a question left to the courts.

He went on to disregard the concern raised by Trump's lawyers that the information once released would pose irreparable harm to the president and his family.

“Any delay in proceeding may result in … irreparable harm to the committees,” he said, given the turnover in Congress because of elections.

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Meanwhile, attorneys for Trump, the accounting firm Mazars and House Oversight Committee Democrats filed a joint motion Wednesday with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals requesting an expedited hearing on their case — though even that speedy schedule would delay production of Trump’s financial documents until late summer at the earliest.
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The agreed-upon timetable, which still needs the judges' signoff, would see several rounds of briefs filed over the next eight weeks, followed by oral arguments “as soon as the court deems practicable.”

Under the approach put before the D.C. Circuit, the Democrats said they would agree to suspend the deadlines in the subpoena for production of the financial documents while the appeal worked its way through the court. Mazars, meantime, would still keep working to collect and prepare documents but wouldn’t turn any over until the judges’ render an opinion.

Should the judges reject their proposed schedule, the Trump lawyers said they’d file an emergency motion to stay Mehta’s decision pending the appeal. Democrats also said they’d agree to suspend the production schedule in the subpoena until there’s a ruling.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Wednesday voiced confidence that lawmakers would continue to prevail in the courts.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/22/judge-sides-with-democrats-in-trump-bank-subpoena-fight-1340133