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Trump takes fight with Dems to the courts | TheHill

posted onMay 4, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE is leaning on a tried and tested personal strategy in his fight with Congress, moving the battle to the courts. The courts have long been Trump's preferred battleground, with the president and his businesses involved in a slew of cases over the years. Now he's taking that approach to fight back against House Democrats. The president and his private businesses filed a pair of recent lawsuits challenging congressional subpoenas seeking Trump's financial records, as well as those of this family. Experts predict a messy legal battle involving all three branches of the government. And it's sure to be a drawn-out and complicated process, as the judges involved will likely seek to avoid politicizing the role of the courts in an inherently political fight. The lawsuits are part of the president’s vow to fight any subpoenas issued by House Democrats in the course of their myriad investigations into Trump, his family and businesses. Attorneys for Trump and the businesses argue in both lawsuits filed last month that the requests for financial documents are an overreach of Congress’s powers, and that they don’t fall under lawmakers’ legislative authorities. But legal experts are doubtful that those arguments would stand up in court, as Congress doesn’t need a legislative purpose in order to conduct oversight. “I don’t even know what to make of it,” Mitchel Sollenberger, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said of the Trump legal argu... Link to the full article to read more

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