ADIt’s moot because Leon, a district court judge in D.C. , made it moot. Another judge on the D.C. district court, Trevor McFadden, a Trump transition volunteer and Trump DOJ official before Trump appointed him to the court, has been similarly unhurried. ADThe House Ways & Means committee filed a lawsuit on July 2 requiring Trump to release his tax returns. Compare that with a similar suit over Trump’s taxes filed in the same court by the House Oversight Committee. The great district court Judge John Sirica, an Eisenhower appointee who held President Richard Nixon to account during Watergate, later explained why he rejected Nixon’s similarly specious claims of untouchable executive power.

Source: Washington Post November 18, 2019 23:15 UTC