The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit by a group of congressional Democrats seeking documents related to the former Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Democrats had previously sought details about the government lease for the Washington hotel when Trump owned it. However, the lawmakers have since dropped the lawsuit, effectively rendering any hearing by the high court moot.
As the Independent reports:
The case was first initiated in 2017 – Mr. Trump's first year in office – when 17 Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee sued the General Services Administration (GSA) for information about the 2013 lease of the Old Post Office building to Mr Trump's company to make it into a hotel.
The court threw out a ruling from a federal appeals court that let the lawsuit proceed. The Monday ruling from the top US court had been sought by the Justice Department under President Joe Biden. The administration had been concerned that if the appeals court ruling had been allowed to stand, it could prompt a barrage of lawsuits from individual members of Congress against the administration.
The legislators filed the lawsuit after the Trump administration refused to hand over information about the Trump Organization's lease on the building, located between the White House and the US Capitol on Pennsylvania Avenue near the National Mall in Washington DC.
The Trump family is no longer the owner of the hotel, which has been transformed into a Waldorf Astoria, and large parts of the information the lawmakers wanted have been provided, the AP noted.
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Those Turd-o-crats are gonna GET ‘im! Why? Because Trump is honest and cannot be bought. They can be bought and have indeed been bought. Corruption is their middle name and they want to seize our Republic and flush it down the drain of tyranny.
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“The legislators filed the lawsuit after the Trump administration refused to hand over information about the Trump Organization’s lease on the building.
“sued the General Services Administration for information.”
why are you asking the Trump org for the document when the GSA have the documents. I seriously doubt the GSA refused to provide a copy of public available documents to the committee. like so many others it is more likely a frivolous lawsuit just because its attached to the Trump name.