The subpoena seeks access to a slew of Trump financial documents dating back to 2011, including personal records and records of various affiliated business and entities. And Mehta acknowledged a high likelihood that any documents obtained by House Democrats would quickly leak, and become partisan political fodder. WHITE HOUSE TELLS MCGAHN TO DEFY HOUSE SUBPOENA; DOJ ASSERTS IMMUNITY"Courts have grappled for more than a century with the question of the scope of Congress’s investigative power," Mehta wrote. "The Oversight Committee has shown that it is not engaged in a pure fishing expedition for the President’s financial records," the judge wrote. "The Oversight Committee has shown that it is not engaged in a pure fishing expedition for the President’s financial records."

Source: Fox News May 20, 2019 21:30 UTC