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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Lawyers on House Judiciary Dems' Document Request: You Get Nothing
Trumps Lawyers on House Judiciary Dems Document Request: You Get Nothing
The House Judiciary Committee set a Monday deadline for 81 people, government agencies and private organizations to submit material.
Asawin Suebsaeng,
Spencer Ackerman
03.18.19 1:29 PM ET
President Trumps personal legal team is telling a crucial House committee seeking documents from dozens of Trumpworld associates that it has nothing to turn overan early signal that both sides are gearing up for a confrontation.
Monday is the deadline set by the House Judiciary committee for 81 people, government agencies and private organizations to voluntarily submit substantial amounts of written material relevant to a practically omnibus House Democratic investigation. The Judiciary Democrats are after far more than just the ties to Russia that their Intelligence Committee members are investigating. They want material speaking to abuses of official power, public corruption and obstruction of justice.
In what they characterized on March 4 as an opening salvo, the Judiciary Committee said that recipients of their document requests could, to facilitate production, begin turning over the material they may have already provided to the criminal investigations into Trumpworld run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York.
But the presidents lawyers believe theyve got the committee caught in a logic trap.
According to a source with knowledge of the response, Trumps team of outside attorneys informed Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and his committee that they would not be handing over any documents. The brief letter, sent by Trump attorney Jane Raskin, lays out that Jay Sekulowthe Trump lawyer who received the documents request early this monthand the current team never turned anything over to Muellers office or the Southern District. Hence, the source said, when Nadler asked Trumps outside counsel for such documents, the attorneys position is that the House Democrat was asking for something that didnt exist.
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Trump's Lawyers on House Judiciary Dems' Document Request: You Get Nothing (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2019
OP
well, if they turn trump loose to be the dictator he longs to be, they are jeopardizing their jobs
spanone
Mar 2019
#12
zaj
(3,433 posts)1. Hahahaha...
the current team never turned anything over to Muellers office or the Southern District.
Haha, that's an amusing distinction that won't hold up for long.
Zoonart
(11,832 posts)2. Nifty trick, that....
"But the presidents lawyers believe theyve got the committee caught in a logic trap."
Let's just see what Jerry has to say about that.
Let's just see what Jerry has to say about that.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)7. But what will they say to the Supreme Court..?
...when the Justices say they need to see the documents?
Nadler is saying, "Talk to the Committee or talk to the Justices" ?
Zoonart
(11,832 posts)8. They think SCOTUS is in their pocket.
and it may be.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)13. Make them prove it.
It will be good to know.
True Blue American
(17,981 posts)3. Hiho
Hiho, its off to Court we go. Nixons team did the same thing.
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)4. This will be the MO for anything and everything
requested be the Dems. Subpoenas have already been written I bet. Then off to the SCOTUS. Will Roberts move to the left now that tRump has made the court lopsided?
spanone
(135,792 posts)12. well, if they turn trump loose to be the dictator he longs to be, they are jeopardizing their jobs
we'll see who the constitutionalists are.
manor321
(3,344 posts)5. But this was just the first request. Nadler knows he's asking for documents already given.
Nadler explained previously that this request was for documents already produced. He hinted it is not necessarily their last request.
kentuck
(111,052 posts)6. Last I heard, about half had already complied?
I think I heard Chairman Nadler say that the other day?
Anybody heard anything similar?
malaise
(268,698 posts)9. Off to the greatest page
Lock them up!
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)10. WH gets subpoenas..
hahaha.
spanone
(135,792 posts)11. subpoena, subpoena, subpoena.....the dictator has to be treated as one.