U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Could 14, 2019.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday appealed a decision from a federal judge upholding a subpoena issued by a congressional committee in search of details about Trump’s funds.
The transfer, which was anticipated, has arrange an early authorized take a look at of the president’s technique of combating off congressional oversight by rejecting the legitimacy of subpoenas he argues are motivated by politics.
In a submitting, Trump’s attorneys wrote that they intend to problem “all facets” of U.S. District Court docket Decide Amit Mehta’s Monday order granting the Home Oversight Committee broad investigative powers.
The committee’s subpoena sought info from the accounting agency Mazars associated to Trump’s monetary paperwork.
The president signaled Monday night that he supposed to enchantment the order, calling it …