A federal judge in D.C. declined to block a House subpoena to President Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, for his financial records. Today, Trump formally appealed the ruling to the D.C. Court of Appeals – where the chief judge is Merrick Garland, Obama's Supreme Court nominee https://t.co/Lwe4u7hm5J
— Katie Couric (@katiecouric) May 21, 2019
Mazars shouldn’t comply. But the reaction of those on the left show they believe Garland should be partisan.
Via Twitchy:
Donald Trump’s lawyers have now formally appealed a federal court ruling that refused to block a House subpoena of the president’s tax returns via his accounting firm, Mazars USA. The judge who will hear the appeal is Merrick Garland, who lost out on a SCOTUS seat in 2016:
Mazars may comply with the subpoena, however: