Lawmakers have not done enough to say why they need president’s financial records, administration argues
The Justice Department sided with President Donald Trump on Tuesday in his fight to stop a congressional subpoena for eight years of his financial records, telling a federal appeals court that lawmakers had not done enough to say why they need the information.
“The House’s lack of responsibility is sufficient reason for this Court to declare this subpoena invalid,” the DOJ wrote in a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The Justice Department said that “at an absolute minimum,” the appeals court should require the House Oversight and Reform Committee to provide more clarity about the legislative purpose for seeking Trump’s records from his accounting firm, Mazars USA.
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