Judge to House Dems: No, you can’t speed up lawsuit for Trump’s tax returns

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Judge to House Dems: No, you can’t speed up lawsuit for Trump’s tax returns

Ed MorrisseyPosted at 10:01 am on August 30, 2019

Are House Democrats feeling pressure to speed up their attempts to find dirt on Donald Trump? If so, the federal court most certainly is not. Judge Trevor McFadden shot down attempts by the House Ways and Means Committee in its lawsuit over Trump’s tax returns  to both get a summary judgment against the president and to expedite the case yesterday:


    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rejected House Democrats’ effort to speed up their lawsuit over their request for President Trump’s federal tax returns. …

    McFadden gave several reasons for denying the committee’s motion to expedite, as well as denying the motion for summary judgment as premature but allowing it to refile at a later time.

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/30/judge-house-dems-no-cant-speed-lawsuit-trumps-tax-returns/

[verga]

They just have not sunk low enough yet.
He is playing them like a fiddle to make them look stupid.

[PeteS in CA]

As I posted here:

Putting it simply, the Dems are working a political game, a fishing expedition with a time fuse of Election Day, 2020. Their scheme requires having Trump's tax returns in time for them to pretzellate information from it into some sort of frivolous but serious-sounding accusation of fraud close enough to Election Day that Trump's response can't be heard as widely as the accusation. Judge McFadden has let the Dems know that their time fuse does not create urgency in his handling of the case.