You can read the latest (Mazar subpoena case) ruling here:
cnn.com/2019/05/20/pol…
The quarrel was over whether Congress has authority to request Trump’s personal accounting records.
Team Trump argued the subpoena was “invalid & unenforceable.”
💠Considering strengthening ethics and disclosure laws;
💠Considering amending penalties;
💠Monitoring the president’s compliance with the Foreign Emoluments Clauses;
💠 and insuring the president has no conflicts of interest that would prevent him from carrying out his duties.
Trump argued that Congress is just looking for political dirt.
It's Trump's usual, "poor me, the Democrats are just out to get me so I'm a victim" argument.
The court concluded that inquiry any that might enable Congress to do its job must be permitted; it doesn’t have to be for a specific piece of legislation or formal impeachment inquiry.
Courts don't get to second guess Congress's motives.
Here’s George W. Bush decrying judges who “legislate from the bench”👇 Quotation from: scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewconten…
What Trump is asking the courts to do goes way beyond mere activism. He wants the Courts to protect him from the Mean Congress.
See: definitions.uslegal.com/j/judicial-res…
What do I mean? See⤵️
In his quest to make himself an autocrat, Trump has been pummeling democratic Institutions and what Harvard profs. @dziblatt and Levitsky call the guardrails of democracy.
Comey and others described how Trump corrupts people and gets them on his side.
As I wrote this, another “I’m a victim” example popped into my feed:
Trump will lose this. We have liberal and conservative judges, but not enough who will fall in line with Trump’s “poor me" schtick.
For people who jump in and say, “But SCOTUS is on Trump’s side!” I’ve given two reasons the Court will not create an autocracy.
That means taking America back to a bygone era when white men did as they pleased—not all the way back to autocratic King George.
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Really, Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC
You have NEVER seen anyone treated this badly?
🤔 Wealthy white male priviledge, perhaps?
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