Federal judge sides with House Democrats over subpoena for Trump’s financial records
Excerpt from Judge Mehta's ruling:
"Courts have grappled for more than a century with the question of the scope of Congress’s investigative power. The binding principle that emerges from these judicial decisions is
that courts must presume Congress is acting in furtherance of its
constitutional responsibility to legislate and must defer to
congressional judgments about what Congress needs to carry out that
purpose. To be sure, there are limits on Congress’s investigative
authority. But those limits do not substantially constrain Congress. 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."
Read the full opinion here
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