Judge who ruled Trump accountants must comply with subpoena is not only an Obama appointee — he is an Obama donor

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CHRIS ENLOE

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, must comply with a subpoena by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requesting financial documents related to Trump and his businesses. But new information highlighted Monday revealed the ruling judge may have some political bias.

What did the judge say?

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, defended the broad authority given to Congress to investigate the president.
Mehta ruled that while "there are limits on Congress's investigative authority ... those limits do not substantially constrain Congress."
"So long as Congress investigates on a subject matter on which 'legislation could be had,' Congress acts as contemplated by Article I of the Constitution," Mehta wrote in a 41-page opinion. "President Trump cannot block the subpoena to Mazars."
Trump's legal team sued in federal court last month to block the subpoena. They argued the subpoena was politically motivated, and therefore, held no legislative purpose. Mehta, however, claimed it was not his job to determine whether or not the subpoena had a political motivation behind it.

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