DOJ files to halt Trump suit demanding financial documents

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday challenged a federal judge’s decision to allow a case accusing President Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency to move forward, asking an appeals court to take up the case instead.

Justice lawyers asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to overrule a federal judge and instead allow for a mid-case appeal or to dismiss the case outright, calling the case dealing with a Revolutionary War-era clause “extraordinary.”

The government lawyers also want the court to suspend legal discovery recently approved by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, which would force Trump-related entities such as his New York and D.C. hotels, Trump Tower, the Trump Organization, and Mar-a-Lago Club to turn over business tax returns, receipts and other documents.

Justice lawyers said in the filings that answering their 37 subpoena requests in the interim, by July 29, would cause Trump “irreparable injury” and distract him from his official duties.

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By TAMI ABDOLLAH
2 hours ago


Read more: https://apnews.com/6a0e1e91d45642eebee317f80cc4812f

[msongs]

1. since the DOJ is trump's personal legal counsel, cut off funding and let trump pay for it nt

[Iliyah]

2. Times up for Barr.

[ck4829]

3. Department of Just Us at it again

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Twitter is a bigger distraction if you ask me

Justice lawyers said in the filings that answering their 37 subpoena requests in the interim, by July 29, would cause Trump “irreparable injury” and distract him from his official duties.

[EleanorR]

6. or the $108,000,000 dollars worth of golf he said he wasn't going to have time to play

“If I win I may never see my property — I may never see these places again. But because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go golfing, believe me. Believe me. Believe me, folks.”

[kacekwl]

5. So, the DOJ IS trumps personal attorney.

What's up with that Mr. Barr ?

[yaesu]

7. so, the DOJ is now the department of jackasses, its time to impeach them all

this would have never gone this far back in the watergate era and no excuse is good enough anymore, IMPEACH!!!

[Simeon Salus]

8. So the Federalist Society thinks the emoluments part of the constitution

is a "Revolutionary War-era clause"? Like that's suddenly a bad thing for them?

[Midnight Writer]

10. I am sure we will hear from Originalists outraged by this.

[Kali]

9. "...and distract him from his official duties."

--- hoping the judge has the same reaction as me.

[ScratchCat]

11. OK, I am confused

How exactly does the DOJ have standing here? Trump personally is being accused of violating the Constitution, and the violations have nothing to do with his duties as President or delegated powers.

Further, this is going nowhere given their laughable lack of an argument about "irreparable injury" and "official duties".

[sdfernando]

12. Oh those quaint "Revolutionary War-era clauses'

Like "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" .....well we KNOW they don't believe all men (and women) are created equal.

Or "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ...Well we KNOW that the evangelitalibists don't believe in this.

Or more...Oh so many quaint Revolutionary War-era clauses. Old, tired, and worn-out!