Care about balance of power? Root for Trump’s legal team in financial records fight

Blinda Vaganto · Apr 23, 2019

President Trump threw his first counterpunch Monday to the flurry of subpoenas that House Democrats issued in recent weeks, filing a federal lawsuit to block the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s demand for eight years of financial records from Trump’s businesses.

The complaint argues that the committee’s subpoena is an illegal power grab that usurps authority from the Justice Department. This might strike you as richly ironic, if you happen to be alarmed by the president’s expansive view of executive power and his administration’s tendency to act like a law unto itself.

But if you worry about preserving the balance of powers in government and constitutional limits on elected officials, you should probably be rooting for Trump’s legal team on this one. Even though Trump’s complaint reads more like a campaign ad than a legal document, it is founded on an important principle: Congress’ subpoena power exists to support legitimate legislative functions, not prosecutorial fishing expeditions.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-trump-subpoenas-lawsuit-20190422-story.html
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Nice to see there are some people on the left who think there should be a limit to their hate, hysteria, and fear of Donald Trump. But others are openly arguing that while Trump, probably, didn't commit any crime but we have to keep searching in any and every place we can.

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Care about balance of power? Root for Trump’s legal team in financial records fight

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