Trump and the House Oversight committee have filed for an expedited appeal of Mazars ruling

[pnwmom]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Zoe Tillman
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NEW: Trump's lawyers and the House Oversight Committee have asked the DC Circuit to expedite his appeal re: the subpoena to his accounting firm. If the court agrees, the House agreed to suspend the deadline for the company to produce documents

This is significant — if the court agrees to this schedule, and the House suspends the deadline for Mazars to produce docs, this avoids a fight over an emergency motion to stay the lower court order (the district judge denied a stay request, see: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/house-democrats-subpoena-trump-accountant-judge-rules …)

A fight over an emergency stay request would delay getting to a final ruling on whether the House subpoena is lawful — if Trump lost on an emergency motion in the DC Circuit, for instance, he could petition SCOTUS to get involved. So this would move things along more quickly.

Zoe Tillman
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@ZoeTillman
Here's House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings on agreeing to suspend the subpoena deadline if the DC Circuit agrees to expedite the case: "I hope the Court approves our request so we can move forward and effectively discharge our responsibilities under the Constitution."

[triron]

1. Why make this concession??? (Oversight committee)

[pnwmom]

4. I just added a couple tweets that say Oversight wants to speed up

the process to a final decision.

I'm more surprised Trump would go along with this.

[triron]

8. I'm referring to suspension of subpoena deadline.

[pnwmom]

10. The deadline isn't firm because Trump could still get a stay from an appeals court.

Oversight would rather have a complete review from the appeals court on an expedited basis.

[TeamPooka]

11. because the deadline will be irrelevant if we get the expedited ruling

[StarfishSaver]

12. Because it allows the final decision to be expedited

If they didn't do this, the appellate court probably would have issued a stay pending its decision and there would be no guarantee the decision would come quickly - meaning the documents wouldn't be produced for an undetermined period as the court decides the case.

This speeds up the process and resolution.

[stillcool]

19. God, but you are good..

it's like you leave pieces of knowledge everywhere you go.

[StarfishSaver]

21. What a nice thing to say.

Thanks!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. It isn't a concession at all. It allows the entire case to move more quickly

because it bypasses the whole process of appealing the denial of the stay.

[Blue_true]

23. The article pointed out that this route is the fastest for getting Trump's accounting information. n

[bluestarone]

2. Gotta question this!

WHY?

[pnwmom]

5. I just added a couple posts that explain why. n/t

[StarfishSaver]

14. Please remember that not only is Chairman Cummings a lawyer

but the Oversight Committee has the benefit of some of the best lawyers in the country both on its staff and as advisors.

They know what they're doing.

[bluestarone]

16. GOTCHA!

Just too much to try to understand i guess! Keep the faith right??

[StarfishSaver]

17. Right!

[herding cats]

3. Of course. They'll lose the appeal.

Read through this live blog of the hearing.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1131196032006725632.html

They were outclassed. Bigly.

[pnwmom]

6. Thanks! It's interesting -- but related to today's Deutsche bank hearing, right?

The OP is about the Mazars hearing earlier in the week (the accounting firm.)

There's so much going on this week it's hard to keep up.

[spooky3]

7. Yes, but most of it is going our way! Nt

[pnwmom]

9. All this and the New York laws that were passed this week, too.

One offering to hand over their state tax records on Trump to Congress; and the other exempting people who had Presidential pardons from NY's double jeopardy laws.

Trump is having a very bad week!

[spooky3]

22. Bigly bad! Nt

[herding cats]

13. My mistake.

With so many hearings and losses by Trump I got confused.

[pnwmom]

15. Anyone might. It's getting awfully complicated. n/t

[kentuck]

18. Wow! You almost need to be a judge to understand this.