Federal judge dismisses Dems request for records on Trump's Washington hotel
Source: Raw Story
NOOR AL-SIBAI 14 AUG 2018 AT 17:37 ET
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of House Democrats seeking records on Donald Trumps Washington, D.C. hotel.
The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote that the group of 17 Democrats seeking the large cache of documents on the Trump International Hotel in D.C. have no legal standing to bring the suit.
The report noted that the Obama-appointed judge wrote in his opinion that there is no legal precedent for the type of request the congressional Democrats were suing over.
Mehta added that the House members had other options to settle disputes over documents, including a formal subpoena from a congressional committee or other institutional responses from Congress, the Journal noted.
The fact that a political remedy is hard to achieve does not automatically swing open the doors to the federal courts, the Obama appointee wrote of the suit brought by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
In their lawsuit, the report added, the Democrats cited the obscure Seven Member Rule a 1928 law that enables any seven members of the panel to request and receive documents from the federal government.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/federal-judge-dismisses-dems-request-records-trumps-washington-hotel/
This is why we need to take back the house and use the Congressional Subpoena
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough....................vote
lancelyons
(988 posts)There is no guarantee that we will take back the house.
riversedge
(70,220 posts)and get him or her to the polls (of course it would have to be a Democrat"
justgamma
(3,666 posts)They issued a subpoena to turdblossom and he just ignored it. They did nothing.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)they refuse to and if there are no other legal options left for the Democrats then they can try to get the courts to step in?
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Trump has had enough time in office to consolidate power and influence the Judiciary. It is time for Mueller to come through with some serious charges and get this idiot impeached in the House.
Marthe48
(16,959 posts)Judge Mehta is probably trying to preserve the rule of law. And might be trying to avoid setting precedents the bad guys could use.
But yes, should have gotten that pos out of the White House a lot sooner.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)Whitehouse at all however we do not live in such a world nor do we live in a world where we had the evidence let alone the votes to impeach him in those first 6 months and even if we win ever Senate seat in November we will still would not have the required number of votes.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)I think the judge made the proper ruling. He is right about there being a remedy that does not include the courts. That is the way it should be. It's not the judge's fault we have a complicit GOP congress.
We don't want the courts thrown open like this because the GOP will use them non-stop once they lose the majority.
Fullduplexxx
(7,863 posts)They wouldnt hesitate to do it and there's no gauranty that they wont in the future anyway.
The cons are already blowing through any precident . they arent going to consider our reactions
bitterross
(4,066 posts)I do see the point that they would do it anyway and in a heartbeat if they could. They proved that with the Senate rules on SCOTUS appointments.
This though, is a bit more difficult to blow up all at one time the way the did that.