Behold, ORANGE MAN BAD has corrupted the entire financial system, and only release of his records can save us from having the Russians rig ANOTHER election. These idiots actually make me miss Tip O'Neal. Moose donate $200 to ACLJ and the Sekulows. They do good work. MAGA!
Two House committees need President Donald Trump’s bank records to write pressing legislation and the U.S. Supreme Court should allow immediate enforcement of subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One, House attorneys told the court Wednesday.
Further delay in the Second Circuit’s mandate enforcing the committees’ subpoenas for the financial records of Trump, his family and his businesses would harm Congress and the public by impeding that legislation, the House Financial Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told the high court. The panels are seeking the information as part of their investigation into international money laundering and foreign influence on U.S. elections and Trump.
“Legislative efforts to secure the financial system from abuse have obvious importance,” the House attorneys said in their brief opposing Trump’s emergency application to delay the mandate. “Nothing is more urgent than efforts to guard against foreign influence in our systems for electing officials, particularly given the upcoming 2020 elections.”
The Second Circuit temporarily stayed the enforcement of the subpoenas on Dec. 3 to allow Trump to file an appeal to the Supreme Court after it partially upheld the committees’ subpoenas to the banks for the financial records. Trump filed an emergency application with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dec. 6, who ordered later that day that the mandate be stayed until Dec. 13.
House lawmakers, who have a two-year term, would be “severely constrained” if an additional stay were granted in the enforcement of the subpoenas and could put the 2020 elections at risk to foreign influence, the committees said. Because developing and enacting legislation is a tenuous affair and the current Congress is well into its session, further delay should not be allowed, the committees said.
The subpoenas are seeking nonprivileged records and don’t stand in contrast to any court precedent, the committees said. The records sought are also different than those requested in a separate subpoena sent by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, that is pending in the Supreme Court, the House attorneys said.
Trump argues in the Mazars case that the House oversight committee can’t pursue any legislation based on the records it seeks. In contrast, there is no dispute in the Deutsche Bank case that the committees can develop and pass legislation to combat foreign influence in elections and money laundering based on the subpoenaed information, according to the brief.
Given also that Trump has “an unprecedented web of complex financial arrangements,” it should be clear why his bank records are the subject of the Financial Services Committee’s subpoena, House attorneys said. The panel has also subpoenaed other firms for financial information on separate businesses and individuals apart from Trump, according to the brief.
If the Supreme Court were to grant a further delay to the mandate enforcing the subpoena, it should proceed on an expedited schedule in the case to reduce the injury to the public and Congress, the committees said.
Trump’s attorneys argued in their emergency application to the high court that the House committees could not use the financial documents they sought to develop legitimate legislation, and authorizing the subpoenas would cause irreparable injury to the president. Additionally, the Supreme Court could reverse the Second Circuit’s ruling because the House panels’ subpoenas do not fall within their “constitutional or statutory authority,” Trump’s attorneys said.
The committees originally issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank on April 11, seeking the financial records related to Trump, his family and businesses. The Financial Services Committee also sent a subpoena to Capital One on the same day, but it was narrower in scope.
Trump, his family members and his businesses sued in New York federal court in May to prevent the production of those records, a request the court ultimately denied (2019 Law360 142-68).
Legal representatives for the Trump, the banks and the committees could not be immediately reached for comment.
Trump, his family and his holdings are represented by Patrick Strawbridge, William Consovoy and Alexa R. Baltes of Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth and Jordan Sekulow of Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group PC.
The House committees are represented by Douglas Letter, Todd B. Tatelman, Megan Barbero and Josephine Morse of the House Office of General Counsel, and Lawrence S. Robbins, Roy T. Englert Jr., Alan D. Strasser, Jennifer S. Windom, Hunter Smith and Brandon L. Arnold of Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber LLP.
Deutsche Bank is represented by Raphael A. Prober, Steven R. Ross, Parvin D. Moyne and Thomas C. Moyer of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Capital One is represented by James Murphy and Steven Feldman of Murphy & McGonigle PC.
The case is Donald J. Trump et al. v. Deutsche Bank et al., case number 19A640, in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two House committees need President Donald Trump’s bank records to write pressing legislation and the U.S. Supreme Court should allow immediate enforcement of subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One, House attorneys told the court Wednesday.
Further delay in the Second Circuit’s mandate enforcing the committees’ subpoenas for the financial records of Trump, his family and his businesses would harm Congress and the public by impeding that legislation, the House Financial Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence told the high court. The panels are seeking the information as part of their investigation into international money laundering and foreign influence on U.S. elections and Trump.
“Legislative efforts to secure the financial system from abuse have obvious importance,” the House attorneys said in their brief opposing Trump’s emergency application to delay the mandate. “Nothing is more urgent than efforts to guard against foreign influence in our systems for electing officials, particularly given the upcoming 2020 elections.”
The Second Circuit temporarily stayed the enforcement of the subpoenas on Dec. 3 to allow Trump to file an appeal to the Supreme Court after it partially upheld the committees’ subpoenas to the banks for the financial records. Trump filed an emergency application with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dec. 6, who ordered later that day that the mandate be stayed until Dec. 13.
House lawmakers, who have a two-year term, would be “severely constrained” if an additional stay were granted in the enforcement of the subpoenas and could put the 2020 elections at risk to foreign influence, the committees said. Because developing and enacting legislation is a tenuous affair and the current Congress is well into its session, further delay should not be allowed, the committees said.
The subpoenas are seeking nonprivileged records and don’t stand in contrast to any court precedent, the committees said. The records sought are also different than those requested in a separate subpoena sent by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, that is pending in the Supreme Court, the House attorneys said.
Trump argues in the Mazars case that the House oversight committee can’t pursue any legislation based on the records it seeks. In contrast, there is no dispute in the Deutsche Bank case that the committees can develop and pass legislation to combat foreign influence in elections and money laundering based on the subpoenaed information, according to the brief.
Given also that Trump has “an unprecedented web of complex financial arrangements,” it should be clear why his bank records are the subject of the Financial Services Committee’s subpoena, House attorneys said. The panel has also subpoenaed other firms for financial information on separate businesses and individuals apart from Trump, according to the brief.
If the Supreme Court were to grant a further delay to the mandate enforcing the subpoena, it should proceed on an expedited schedule in the case to reduce the injury to the public and Congress, the committees said.
Trump’s attorneys argued in their emergency application to the high court that the House committees could not use the financial documents they sought to develop legitimate legislation, and authorizing the subpoenas would cause irreparable injury to the president. Additionally, the Supreme Court could reverse the Second Circuit’s ruling because the House panels’ subpoenas do not fall within their “constitutional or statutory authority,” Trump’s attorneys said.
The committees originally issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank on April 11, seeking the financial records related to Trump, his family and businesses. The Financial Services Committee also sent a subpoena to Capital One on the same day, but it was narrower in scope.
Trump, his family members and his businesses sued in New York federal court in May to prevent the production of those records, a request the court ultimately denied (2019 Law360 142-68).
Legal representatives for the Trump, the banks and the committees could not be immediately reached for comment.
Trump, his family and his holdings are represented by Patrick Strawbridge, William Consovoy and Alexa R. Baltes of Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Jay Alan Sekulow, Stuart J. Roth and Jordan Sekulow of Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group PC.
The House committees are represented by Douglas Letter, Todd B. Tatelman, Megan Barbero and Josephine Morse of the House Office of General Counsel, and Lawrence S. Robbins, Roy T. Englert Jr., Alan D. Strasser, Jennifer S. Windom, Hunter Smith and Brandon L. Arnold of Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber LLP.
Deutsche Bank is represented by Raphael A. Prober, Steven R. Ross, Parvin D. Moyne and Thomas C. Moyer of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Capital One is represented by James Murphy and Steven Feldman of Murphy & McGonigle PC.
The case is Donald J. Trump et al. v. Deutsche Bank et al., case number 19A640, in the U.S. Supreme Court.
