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NEW President Trump’s lawyers notified a federal judge that they have appealed “all aspects” of his Monday ruling that the president’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress in a gathering legal battle over its oversight powers. wapo.st/2QfIsjc
Andy Wright, a former Obama associate White House counsel and House oversight committee staff director from 2007 to 2011, said Mazars case could move quickly: in 2016 Supreme Court took only 39 days to refuse a request by Backpage.com to block a Senate subpoena.
“It’s not one size fits all … but in a sense the stay litigation is the ballgame, and the burden is on the person resisting the subpoena to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits, as well as that it is in the interests of justice,” Wright said.
Wright, a partner at K&L Gates, added, “It is possible, if Judge Mehta’s reasoning holds, that both the D.C. circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court could resolve this within the next five weeks in an adverse way to President Trump. So that’s pretty fast.”
