Trump appeals ruling that US House can see financial records
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The House Oversight Committee first issued a subpoena for Trump's financial records in 2019.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump have quickly appealed this week's court ruling that his accounting firm must turn over some of his financial records to a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee.
In a court notice, lawyers for Trump said they would ask the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review Wednesday's decision by a trial court-level judge.
Wednesday's ruling by US District Judge Amit Mehta came in a long-running lawsuit brought by the House Oversight Committee, which first issued a subpoena for Trump's financial records in 2019.
The lawsuit was back in Mehta's courtroom after a trip to the US Supreme Court. In a July 2020 decision, the high court said Mehta needed to redo his legal analysis and weight the House's needs for Trump's financial records against the burden such a request puts on the former president.
Mehta's ruling from this week did that, and it was a split decision. He said Trump's accounting firm, Mazars, should turn over financial documents to the House committee but not all of the records the panel had sought.
