WASHINGTON — House Democrats investigating Donald Trump are entitled to some of the former president’s financial records, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington is the latest development in years-long legal and political skirmishes over access to Trump’s finances. But it’s unlikely to be the last say on the matter, given expected appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court has already weighed in once.
At issue is a demand from Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which in 2019 and again last February subpoenaed Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, for the records.
In his order, Mehta wrote that though he had previously turned aside Trump’s challenge to the subpoena and permitted the committee’s demand for records to “proceed without qualification,” a Supreme Court opinion from 2020 required a new analysis in favor of more limited access to the records than what lawmakers initially wanted.
