(Reuters) -A long-running court fight between Donald Trump and a House of Representatives committee over his financial records is heading back to an appeals court after a judge issued a split decision https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-says-some-trump-financial-records-should-be-turned-over-house-panel-2021-08-11 this week.
In court documents filed on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers and attorneys for the House Oversight Committee both asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review a decision issued on Wednesday.
In that ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars, should turn over some financial documents to the Democratic-led House committee but not all of the records the panel had sought.
Mehta’s ruling 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 U.S. Supreme Court. In a July 2020 decision, the high court said Mehta needed to redo his legal analysis and weigh the House’s needs for Trump’s financial records against the burden such a request puts on the former president.
