Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Nice and Neat - "On Monday, federal Judge Amit Mehta issued a sweeping decision rejecting Trump’s personal challenge to a House Oversight Committee subpoena of his financial records from an accounting firm he has used. The main argument Trump advanced was that there was no legislative purpose for the subpoena.

Mehta made quick work of that argument, noting that courts have long held that they must presume Congress is acting to legislate. But Trump’s argument went further, claiming that Congress is engaging in “law enforcement” and that corrupt behavior by the president is not a “proper subject of investigation.” Mehta cited Watergate as an obvious rebuttal.

Trump’s argument is doomed to fail in the courts because the Constitution gives the House the “full power of impeachment” and it could not exercise that authority without investigating presidential wrongdoing.

Mehta found that it is “simply not fathomable” that “a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct—past or present—even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry.”"

Is an excerpt from your - LAW AND ORDER - Why Trump’s Stonewalling Legal Strategy Will Keep Failing
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/26/trump-tax-returns-subpoena-226987

Late thought: Surely Nunes and the other's failure to faithfully execute their constitutional responsibility of oversight
must be accepted by all, even Trump supporters, as Nunes and the others acting in an unconstitutional manner.