The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit upheld a subpoena from the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee attempting to obtain former President Trump's financial records.
You can now listen to Fox News articles!accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, must turn over some financial records pertaining to the time period surrounding his 2016 election, as well as his time in the White House, to the Democrat-controlled House Oversight Committee.
The court largely upheld a congressional subpoena for the records, meaning the committee can now obtain documents related to allegations that Trump may have broken the Constitution's"emoluments" clause, which would have prevented him from accepting payments from foreign governments without approval from Congress, or violated other financial disclosure laws.
The ruling also said, according to Reuters, that the committee could only ask for documents related to potential legislation it was considering. It specifically pointed to the"overbroad" scope of the subpoena concerning some of the records it had requested, which included some related to the
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