The filing is the latest in an ongoing fight between House Democrats and the White House.
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow May 1 at 8:56 PM Attorneys for the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee said in court papers Wednesday that a lawsuit filed by President Trump aimed at blocking a panel subpoena was an attack on constitutional checks and balances and on Congress’s oversight powers..
Ruling for Trump “would directly impede ongoing congressional investigations of national importance and threaten the constitutional system that separates and divides power between the branches of government,” lawyers for the House panel wrote. Congressional Democrats say the administration is stonewalling them, while Trump’s lawyers counter that they will not allow Democrats to wage a campaign of “congressional Presidential harassment.”Last month, Cummings announced plans to subpoena Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA.
“The Oversight Committee is . . . assuming the powers of the Department of Justice, investigating allegations of illegal conduct by private individuals,” the president’s lawyers wrote.Cummings’ attorneys called the lawsuit a long-shot bid to delay the unearthing of politically damaging information about Trump until after the 2020 election, and to obscure from the public ongoing conflicts of interest by officials charged with executing the nation’s laws.
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