The House Oversight and Reform Committee has again issued a subpoena to the former President Trump
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House lawyer Doug Letter said in the lawsuit that the subpoena was issued on Thursday. The subpoena is the latest effort by Congressional investigators to get their hands on Trump’s financial records.
The oversight panel first announced in December that it planned to reissue the subpoena. The committee is looking for eight years of records related to Trump and his business from the ex-president’s accountants, but the subpoena was tied up in court because of a Trump lawsuit that seeks to protect Congress officials’ documents.
Democrats have been trying to obtain Trump’s records for years, saying access to the forms will help to form stricter financial disclosure legislation to hold future administrations accountable.
During the summer, the Supreme Court delayed subpoena efforts after ruling that the lower courts had not sufficiently balanced the interests of the executive and legislative branches. However, the court last month gave the green light to a subpoena for the same material by Manhattan prosecutors, and public prosecutor Cyrus Vance recently obtained Trump’s tax returns.
Congressional Democrats appear to be preparing for months of legal battles to get Trump’s information. The letter’s filing included a proposed legal timeline that would see Trump’s first briefing taking place on April 15, followed a month later by the supervisory panel’s response. The discussions would last at least until June.