According to Letter’s schedule, Trump’s first assignment would appear on April 5, with the committee’s response a month later. Additional assignments will be filed on May 19 and June 2. Oral argument would be scheduled ‘as soon as possible’ thereafter.
This is the latest chapter for the Mazars case, which has already wound up in the Supreme Court. The judges ruled in July that lower courts had not properly investigated the implications of a congressional subpoena for the president’s personal papers. Although the House won the case at district and appeal level, the Supreme Court effectively reset the clock on legislators’ efforts.
However, the Supreme Court has also ruled that Manhattan prosecutors are admissible for virtually the same material, and district attorney Cyrus Vance recently obtained Trump’s tax returns and could pose the biggest legal threat to Trump now that he is out of the White House.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (DN.Y), chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, sent a memorandum to the panel last month – released to the court on Tuesday – explaining why she decided to reissue the summons for Trump’s records. .
“For more than 22 months, the committee has been refusing the key information needed to inform legislative steps to address the ethical crisis once in a generation caused by former President Trump’s unprecedented conflicts of interest,” Maloney wrote.
“Donald Trump’s unprecedented actions as president – including his refusal to relinquish his ‘complex and opaque financial possessions’ – have exposed several clear weaknesses and shortcomings in the laws and regulations regarding financial presidential disclosure, conflicts of interest and compensation,” she said. said. prosecute. “In the 117th Congress, we have a historic opportunity to transpose much-needed reform measures into legislation, and the information that has been summoned is needed to support this effort.”