Thread by @AndrewFeinberg

NEW: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that @realDonaldTrump's financial records must be turned over to the House.

The dissenting judge is Naomi Rao, a Trump appointee.

cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opini…

@realDonaldTrump The court rejected @realDonaldTrump's lawyers' argument that the subpoena has no legitimate legislative purpose.

"The Committee’s interest in alleged misconduct...is in direct furtherance of its legislative purpose."

Also rejected is the argument that @OversightDems are engaged in law enforcement.

@OversightDems "Whether current financial disclosure laws are successfully eliciting the right information from the sitting President, occupant of the highest elected office in the land, is undoubtedly “a matter of concern to the United States.”

@OversightDems The court basically eviscerates @realDonaldTrump's lawyers argument that financial disclosure laws could disrupt the President's ability to do his job.

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump "...the fact that every President during the last four decades has filed financial disclosures offers persuasive evidence that such disclosures neither “prevent[]” nor “disrupt[],” the President’s efforts to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." cc: @gtconway3d

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d "In sum, we detect no inherent constitutional flaw in laws
requiring Presidents to publicly disclose certain financial
information. And that is enough."

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d The two judges in the majority are not kind to Judge Rao's reasoning: "The dissent identifies nothing in the text, structure, or original meaning of Article I or Article II of
the Constitution to support such a sweeping rule of legislative paralysis."

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d "The dissent would reorder the very
structure of the Constitution."

Savage.

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d Boom.

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d In which the court ends up putting the kibosh on the argument made by the White House Counsel on Tuesday.

@OversightDems @realDonaldTrump @gtconway3d "But as the Supreme Court made clear in Clinton v. Jones, a “burden [on] the time and attention of the Chief Executive,” standing alone, “is not sufficient to establish a violation of the Constitution.""

cc: @gtconway3d