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| Trump financial records: New York judge won't block Congressional subpoenas | |
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| A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying he will not block recent congressional subpoenas that are demanding his financial records from two banks. | |
| “I will not enjoin enforcement of the subpoenas,” Judge Edgardo Ramos said, after hearing arguments from lawyers for Trump and Congress. Ramos’s decision came as Trump continues his battle over congressional oversight. | |
| Shortly before the arguments, Trump said he would not work with congressional Democrats until they dropped their investigations of him. Trump had also previously sworn that he would fight “all of the subpoenas”. | |
| The arguments in New York stemmed from the House intelligence and financial services committees’ decision in April to subpoena Deutsche Bank and Capital One for Trump’s financial records. | |
| The subpoenas also sought Trump’s children, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka’s banking records, as well as documents relating to some of his businesses. In the suit, Trump said these financial institutions “have long provided business and personal banking services to plaintiffs”. | |
| Trump filed a lawsuit against the banks on 29 April to block these subpoenas, alleging that they “were issued to harass President Donald J Trump, to rummage through every aspect of his personal finances, his businesses, and the private information of the president and his family, and to ferret about for any material that might be used to cause him political damage”. | |
| Patrick Strawbridge, one of Trump’s lawyers, reiterated in court his position that Congress has overstepped its role in issuing such broad subpoenas. | |
| “That is law enforcement activity,” Strawbridge told Ramos, later arguing, “This is a subpoena for private financial records, it is not backed by a valid (legislative) purpose.” | |
| A lawyer for the Congress countered these subpoenas were misconstrued as only targeting Trump and his family. He said they were part of a “complex investigation across a whole industry, not just Mr Trump.” | |
| The proceeding comes amid the president’s ongoing battle against congressional oversight, in which he has reportedly vowed to fight “all of the subpoenas”. | The proceeding comes amid the president’s ongoing battle against congressional oversight, in which he has reportedly vowed to fight “all of the subpoenas”. |
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| The resistance so far from Trump officials has been fierce. | |
| The former White House counsel Donald McGahn on Tuesday flouted a subpoena to appear before Congress, as Trump blocked him from testifying on Robert Mueller’s report about Russian election meddling. On 8 May, House Democrats voted to hold the US attorney general, William Barr, in contempt for refusing to disclose an unredacted copy of Mueller’s report. | |
| Trump, meanwhile, suffered a legal defeat in his fight against oversight on Monday, when a Washington DC federal judge refused to stop one of his accounting firms from complying with a House subpoena. | Trump, meanwhile, suffered a legal defeat in his fight against oversight on Monday, when a Washington DC federal judge refused to stop one of his accounting firms from complying with a House subpoena. |
| Daniel R Alonso, an attorney at Exiger and former federal prosecutor, said that the Washington ruling was not binding in other federal courts – but that judges elsewhere “can take it into account” when making their own decisions. | |
| “Judges are allowed to make up their own minds, and they take into consideration the law and legal precedent – including cases from other district courts,” Alonso told the Guardian. | |
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