BOOM: Mehta goes on to conclude that "Congress's motives are off limits"

[kpete]

Mehta goes on to conclude that “Congress’s motives are off limits,” so long as the focus of the probe stays within the body’s broad remit to investigate. “It is not the court’s role to decipher whether Congress’s true purpose in pursuing an investigation is to aid legislation or something more sinister such as exacting political retribution,”


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wcOqhrV6_3hCJMhpWQ-qeSjaiZJaUGVJ/view (p 19 of 41)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/judge-trump-mazars-subpoena
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/20/judge-upholds-dem-subpoena-for-trump-financial-records-1335370

[TruckFump]

1. I love this judge.

From the quote in the opening of the opinion, to this conclusion. Well written!

[Shrike47]

2. Lovely memorandum. One in the eye to Trump.

And I keep hearing the wind whisper ‘Whitewater’.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[gademocrat7]

4. Good news.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. Faux and ReichWing radio are going to beat the drum about Judge Mehta being an Obama appointee

for the foreseeable future.

[corbettkroehler]

9. Because The More Impartial And Disinterested A Jurist, The More Liberal! (n/t)

So much for "strict constructionist"!

[maxsolomon]

6. Appeal filed in 3... 2... 1...

Trump and his personal atty Barr know Congress will get what it wants, but they want to drag it out in the courts until the great unwashed forget, or see the Dem's pursuit as vindictive.

2020 is going to be the ugliest campaign in American history.

[StarfishSaver]

8. In the meantime, Congress will get the returns

[maxsolomon]

10. they will?

it wont' get appealed tomorrow morning and a stay placed on the decision?

[StarfishSaver]

11. It's possible the appellate court will issue a stay, but it probably won't happen that fast.

I'll have to research this to be sure of the exact procedure ... Hang on for a few ...

[pnwmom]

12. Don't they generally not issue a stay unless they think the appellant has a good case?

[maxsolomon]

14. I dunno, I'm asking

I guess we'll just find out...

[Evolve Dammit]

7. He hates Obama so much. I want the PeePee tape. Cuz it's too bizarre not to be true.

[burrowowl]

13. Read the first 10 pages

his arguments are iron-clad. It's good reading.