May 20, 2019: Judge Rules Trump Accountants Must Cough Up Records

 

5/20/19: President Trump loses Round One in a ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who says his accountants must turn over financial records subpoenaed by Congress. 

“Courts have grappled for more than a century with the question of the scope of Congress’s investigative power,” Mehta writes in his decision. “The binding principle that emerges from these judicial decisions is that courts must presume Congress is acting in furtherance of its constitutional responsibility to legislate and must defer to congressional judgments about what Congress needs to carry out that purpose.”

 

Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which formally requested documents on Trump and the Trump Organization, calls Mehta’s ruling “a resounding victory for the rule of law and our constitutional system of checks and balances.” 

Naturally, the president says the decision is shocking and appalling, and nasty and a disgrace. “It’s totally the wrong decision by, obviously, an Obama-appointed judge.” 

Obviously. 

Now, a Trump judge? Yeah, those guys you can totally trust.

 

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SPEAKING OF TRUST, Kris Kobach, is considering an offer to become Trump’s “immigration czar.” 

Now that he has cleaned up all the illegal voting by immigrants, which no one else could find  – for example, nine whole cases in Kansas, where he was attorney general for years – Kobach is ready for a fresh challenge. 

There are, however, a few conditions before he accepts the position. First, Kobach wants to be a four-star general in the Trump Air Force, whereby members of the cabinet waste millions flying hither and yon in the most expensive fashion possible. Kobach wants a government jet on call 24 hours a day. Kobach expects to have an office in the West Wing and guaranteed weekends off to be with family. He expects to be the main TV spokesman for the administration – which means Press Secretary Pinocchio can spend her time lying about other matters for a change.

Kobach had about as much success hunting down illegal voters as people do hunting Bigfoot.