The Buccaneers informed the six-time Pro Bowler they are releasing him, instead of paying the $13 million he was due to make in 2019.
“These decisions are very difficult, personally and professionally,” Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht said in a press release:
“Over the past nine years, Gerald has been a cornerstone of this franchise and a leader in our community. Parting ways with a player and person such as Gerald is one of the toughest responsibilities of this job. We wish Gerald, along with his wife, Ebony, and the entire McCoy family continued success and thank them for everything they have meant to our organization and community.”
Rick Stroudof theTampa Bay Times first reported the news.
McCoy has been with Tampa his entire career since the NFC South team drafted him with the No. 3 overall pick out of Oklahoma in 2010.
McCoy was a Pro Bowler every year from 2012 through 2017 and was given first-team All-Pro recognition in 2013. He has 54.5 sacks in his career but is 31 years old and tallied just 28 tackles during the 2018 campaign. It was his lowest mark since he played just six games in 2011, although he was still productive as a pass-rusher with six sacks.
Michael David Smithof Pro Football Talk noted McCoy “has started to show signs of declining play” and will “have a hard time” making the type of money he would have in 2019 if the Buccaneers kept him.
Smith pointed out the presence of other defensive linemen, such as Ndamukong Suh, on the free-agent market will make it all the more difficult for McCoy to find a landing spot, although he said the Cleveland Browns are interested.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter pointed to a number of other “spots that would make sense”:
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Former Buccaneers’ DT Gerald McCoy wants to sign with a playoff contender, and of course make money. But he wants to win. Spots that would make sense include the Browns, the Patriots, the Chargers, the Jaguars, and the Cowboys amongst others.
This comes after new Tampa Bay head coach Bruce Arians didn’t exactly hold back when discussing McCoy’s prospects with the team in March, perGreg Aumanof The Athletic: “I’ve got to evaluate him. Guys at a certain age, it’s different. Usually the age where they get paid the most and production (doesn’t) match. We’ve got to find that out.”
Stroudreported Tuesday that Tampa Bay would not accrue any dead money on its salary cap if it released McCoy, who was absent from organized team activities.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuffed calls for impeachment, reportedly telling fellow Democrats, “This is not about politics. It’s about what’s best for the American people.” | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
House Democratic leaders sparred internally on Monday over whether to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies rejecting the call to move forward for now, according to multiple sources.
Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), and Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) — all members of the Democratic leadership — pushed to begin impeachment proceedings during a leadership meeting in Pelosi’s office, said the sources. Pelosi and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) — one of her key allies and a member of leadership herself — rejected their calls, saying Democrats’ message is being drowned out by the fight over possibly impeaching Trump.
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And in a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee meeting, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) stood up and demanded Trump’s impeachment. Pelosi then countered, “This is not about politics, it’s about what’s best for the American people,” said a member who attended the meeting.
While Pelosi and her top Democrats argue that a majority of Democrats don’t want to impeach, she is under heavy pressure from some of her most hardline members to move more forcefully against Trump.
Several members and aides said an impeachment inquiry resolution could be introduced in the House Judiciary Committee in the next several days, spurring more Democratic debate over how to respond to Trump.
The latest Democratic battle over impeachment began after the White House formally declared that former White House Counsel Don McGahn — a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — would not attend a Tuesday hearing before the Judiciary Committee.
The White House decision to block McGahn’s appearance infuriated some Democrats, who said it was the last straw following Trump’s refusal to honor other Democratic subpoenas.
Cicilline said he supports an impeachment inquiry if McGahn doesn’t show tomorrow.
“I think if this pattern by the president continues, where he’s going to impede and prevent and undermine our ability to gather evidence to do our job, we’re going to be left with no choice,” Cicilline said about initiating an impeachment inquiry. The Rhode Island Democrat insisted that simply beginning an inquiry doesn’t mean that there will be a formal vote to impeach Trump.
“It’s a means where we can collect that information… We need to have the ability to gather the evidence,” Cicilline added.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), another member of the Judiciary Committee, is also in favor of an impeachment inquiry if McGahn doesn’t appear on Tuesday.
“If McGahn doesn’t show tomorrow, I think we’re at an inflection point,” Lieu said. “If we can’t get information, I think we have to start proceeding down this path.”
Judiciary Committee Democrats are scheduled to meet later Monday night to decide how to handle their response to McGahn’s non-appearance.
“We have a Judiciary Committee discussion later on today, I don’t want to prejudge that,” said Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “But the situation is becoming more serious by the minute.”
Trump and White House officials have blocked Democrats’ attempts to obtain the president’s taxes and a record of his personal finances; an unredacted version of the Mueller report, as well as testimony from Mueller directly; more information on Russian interference in the 2016 election; and internal documents on Trump’s immigration and environmental policies, among other issues.
The Trump administration has refused to honor the Democratic subpoenas, with Attorney General William Barr failing to even show up for a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mueller report. The Judiciary Committee then voted to hold Barr in contempt.
Democrats won a legal victory on Monday when a federal judge ruled against Trump’s attempt to prevent the House Oversight and Reform Committee from obtaining Trump’s financial records from his accounting firm. Trump’s lawyers had argued that the committee was not entitled to the records and would immediately appeal.
Yet impeaching Trump, or even beginning an impeachment inquiry against Trump, is a huge risk for Democrats. Pelosi and her allies complain the anti-Trump fervor is overwhelming Democratic messaging on their agenda, and claim that most of the rank-and-file is against the move.
Democratic leaders also fear that impeaching Trump in the House, only to see him acquitted by the Senate, would strengthen his hand in 2020.
But there is a growing chorus of pro-impeachment Democrats, and they’re being egged on by outside groups that argue Trump needs to be removed from office.
Facebook may know even more about your personal life than you think.
Some advertisers are able to use Facebook-provided data to target ads based on a user’s credit score. This is all according to a new report in The Intercept, which raises fresh questions about the company’s data sharing deals.
The tool in question is called “Actionable Insights,”, which Facebook uses to share data about its users’ mobile devices with telecom companies. Facebook stated the tool’s goal is to help carriers provide better service in areas with poor connectivity. But it also uses the information it collects to help those telecoms create targeted advertising.
According to documents obtained by The Intercept, the information Facebook collects includes things like location and demographic information, as well as data about your friends (something Facebook apparently refers to as “friend homophily.”) The social network then passes that aggregated data along to some of its telecom partners.
That kind of data sharing would be eyebrow-raising on its own, but where things get even more troubling is in how advertisers are able to leverage all this supposedly anonymized data. According to The Intercept, Facebook has told its partners that “Actionable Insights can be used to single out individual customers on the basis of creditworthiness.”
From the report:
In this example, Facebook explained how one of its advertising clients, based outside the U.S., wanted to exclude individuals from future promotional offers on the basis of their credit. Using data provided through Actionable Insights, a Data Science Strategist, a role for which Facebook continues to hire, was able to generate profiles of customers with desirable and undesirable credit standings.
Facebook didn’t respond to Mashable’s request for comment, but the company told The Intercept that “we do not, nor have we ever, rated people’s credit worthiness for Actionable Insights or across ads, and Facebook does not use people’s credit information in how we show ads.”
But the fact that advertisers could use Facebook-provided data to extrapolate users’ perceived credit ratings is troubling for a number of reasons. Besides being a massive invasion of privacy, it raises uncomfortable questions. It could even break U.S. laws, as The Intercept points out.
Facebook is already facing a criminal investigation over previous arrangements with smartphone makes, as well as a lawsuit from the federal government over alleged violations of the Fair Housing Act. The social media giant is also staring down a multibillion-dollar FTC fine for privacy violations.
New polling methods are being formulated and tested, but they don’t seem likely to be ready for prime-time deployment in 2020. | Michael Conroy/AP Photo
Professional pollsters say the old way of conducting surveys is fading fast, but new methods might not be trusted and ready for next year.
TORONTO — When veteran pollster Scott Keeter appeared at a recent gathering of industry professionals, he began his presentation with a somber caveat about the methods at the center of his life’s work.
Telephone polling — for decades the backbone of efforts to measure public opinion and the subject of his new study — are in “wheezing condition,” Keeter told a roomful of colleagues. And experiments to prolong their use are akin to putting on “a great party for the deck of the Titanic.”
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The impending death of the telephone poll comes just as the 2020 presidential election is approaching — and without enough time for a tested and trusted alternative to replace it. That raises serious concerns about the reliability of polling results heading into the election, other survey researchers told POLITICO on the sidelines of their conference, with scrutiny of the industry set to be heavier than ever after President Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016.
Fewer Americans than ever are willing to pick up the phone and talk to pollsters, sending costs skyrocketing to roughly double what they were four years ago. Despite enjoying a largely successful 2018 election, pollsters are furiously experimenting to fill the void left by the slow failure of the telephone poll, looking at everything from internet-based solutions to snail mail.
But the possibility of another polling miss in the 2020 presidential race looms, and the next election could present new, unforeseen challenges that polls may struggle to address as they test new methodologies under exacting scrutiny. Both parties are framing the race as an existential contest over the country’s future. Voter engagement is at record highs for this stage of the election cycle. And pollsters are already facing blame for recent election surprises in Israel and Australia.
Steve Koczela, who conducts phone polls in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for Boston’s NPR affiliate, described 2020 as a year “full of promise and peril” as the polling industry transitions from phones to something else.
“It doesn’t seem live phone polling is going away anytime soon, but its place as the clear gold standard is a thing of the past,” Koczela said.
But, for now, most of those other methods are still in development, pollsters at the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s annual meeting said.
Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey, is releasing phone surveys in Iowa and New Hampshire — while, at the same time, conducting as-yet-unreleased experiments with web surveys in which he sends invitations over email. And he says he isn’t alone in testing new methods.
“What I was really surprised at [the conference] this year are the number of traditional pollsters like myself who have, independently of one another, been starting to dip our toes in that pool,” Murray said. “So, right now, while I’m releasing my telephone polls in the early states, I’m also simultaneously conducting online polls using a list sample where I can validate the voters using an email address. And I’m looking to see how that holds up against the telephone survey.”
The eventual replacement for phone polling may not be any one method. It’s more likely to be a patchwork of solutions trying to keep up with the rapidly changing ways Americans communicate with one another. Pollsters at the conference presented research on sending voters invitations in the mail to participate in a web survey and texting voters with links to online polls. Another study even had live interviewers texting back and forth with respondents — a 21st century twist on the telephone conversations long underpinning survey research.
But none of the methods seem ready for prime-time deployment — or the widespread trust of pollsters, campaigns and media organizations — between now and 2020. U.S. news outlets and academic institutions are doing a lot of testing, but the polls governing the presidential race thus far don’t reflect that experimentation. Of the 18 polls conducted so far this year that the Democratic National Committee is counting for qualifying for the first two presidential primary debates, all but one of them are telephone polls conducted by live interviewers.
Many of these innovations are actually coming from the private campaign world. A pollster with the Democratic firm Global Strategy Group presented research his firm had done on reaching voters via text message and directing them to a web survey about ballot measures in Nevada. The all-text-message interview poll study was also from a Democratic firm, Survey 160.
That means the gap between the public polls of the 2020 presidential race and those conducted privately by political groups and campaigns could be significantly greater than in past elections. Virtually all private election polls are conducted by calling people from lists of registered voters, but a number of public polls — including most national surveys — still involve randomly dialing phone numbers.
So far, the spirit of innovation in campaign polls appear to be coming more from Democrats. “I don’t think that quite exists on the Republican side yet,” said Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini, who attended the conference.
Neither party is giving up traditional phone surveys entirely for 2020, though the cash crunch remains a major factor for campaigns — and the media — in deciding where and how frequently to poll, in what candidates and their supporters are calling the most important election in years.
“Our fear is that, if you don’t solve this, it’s going to mean fewer surveys — both on the public side and on the campaign side,” Ruffini said. “It’s not like people are not going to do it — they’re just going to do it less. There’s going to be less situational awareness. I think that’s the urgent problem that needs to be solved.”
The problems surrounding telephone polling and response rates aren’t new, but the urgency around them is.
“I think this year is the year that it’s become inevitable,” said Murray. “We’ve been building towards it, and I think anybody who’s being realistic right now realizes that we now see the horizon for using telephones for election polling.”
On Monday afternoon, Gmail mistakenly sent multiple users a security alert, notifying them that an unknown device had signed into their account.
The number of affected users is currently unknown. However, according to a G Suite admin who chose to remain anonymous, the issue was widespread enough for Google to issue a notification about it in its Admin Panel. As of this writing, and according to the admin, Google was investigating the matter and said it had identified a potential cause, though it did not specify further.
A “new device sign in” notification is a freaky message to get, because it means that someone else has already successfully signed in to your account. Gmail informed users to change their passwords “right away.”
There’s good news, and there’s bad news, folks. The people who received this message can likely breathe easy(ish), because these alerts didn’t necessarily mean that intruders had accessed their accounts. Phew!
The bad news? These messages are actually what Google is describing as a “service issue,” meaning some sort of internal mistake it’s currently investigating.
The initial email. Yikes!
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Unless users can recognize their own IP addresses, they would think that someone else had signed into their account.
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Many people within Mashable’s parent organization, and others on social media, reported receiving the notification.
Anyone else get a new sign in notification for google that can’t be explained?
With the way I have two factor set up the most likely explanation is a bogus flagging of a connection as “new activity”.
The admin told Mashable that Google had issued a notification on its dashboard for admins about the issue. So while we don’t know how many people were affected, the admin said this sort of notification typically means the problem is widespread. Google issued an update around 2 p.m. PT informing admins that it had identified a potential cause.
If you received an email, fear not — your account may be fine. Gmail engineers, on the other hand, are dealing with a big headache.
UPDATE: May 20, 2019, 6:01 p.m. EDT
Google told admins it had resolved the issue around 3 p.m. PT, though it did not provide further details about the cause.
Despite his low approval ratings, Gov. Matt Bevin has the advantage of being in a state that President Donald Trump won by 30 points in 2016. | Mark Humphrey/AP Photo
Kentucky Democrats will choose a candidate to take on GOP Gov. Matt Bevin Tuesday after a three-way primary
Kentucky Democrats think they can beat unpopular Republican Gov. Matt Bevin. But they’re worried a long, tense and expensive primary could undermine their chances of flipping a prized red state.
Despite approval ratings lower than any governor in the country, Bevin has the advantage of running a state that President Donald Trump won by 30 points in 2016, a GOP edge that has grown in recent years. And instead of stockpiling cash to take on Bevin, the top Democrats running against him have spent the months ahead of Tuesday’s primary embroiled in a tense three-way contest.
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Attorney General Andy Beshear, the son of former Gov. Steve Beshear, has been the Democratic front-runner since he entered the race. But he’s facing a strong challenge from former state Auditor Adam Edelen and state Rep. Rocky Adkins in a primary featuring a slew of negative TV ads and forcing the Democrats to spend down their campaign treasuries.
“There is a Democrat in this primary that could beat Bevin given the right circumstances. The question is, are these gonna be the right circumstances?” said Phil Thompson, a former deputy campaign manager for Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes’ 2014 campaign for Senate.
The few public polls of the primary have shown Beshear with around 40 to 50 percent support and double-digit leads in the Democratic primary. That has made him the main target for Adkins and Edelen — both vying for second place in different surveys — and their supporters.
A pro-Edelen super PAC last week pulled down an ad attacking Beshear over his handling of a sexual abuse case involving the Boy Scouts of America. The ad was the latest example of Edelen’s campaign and his supporters trying to bring down Beshear by attacking his legal background and his campaign finance history, two nonpartisan issues that Republicans could pick up and run with in the general election.
It’s left Democrats unsure who will win the primary on Tuesday and how the nominee will step forward into the fight against Bevin. Beshear has picked up late support from NARAL, the pro-abortion rights group, in the final days of the primary, while Edelen won the endorsement of the Courier-Journal, the largest newspaper in Kentucky.
“If Rocky wins then there’s going to be no hard feelings because he was able to stay out of the battle and emerge without anyone attacking him. If Andy wins, he’s been kind of the one being attacked and it’s not on ideological issues it’s more on personal stuff,” said Democrat Jonathan Miller, a former Kentucky state treasurer who’s now a Democratic donor. “Now the concern would be if Adam Edelen won, would the Beshear supporters turn their nose because of the negative campaign?”
Adkins, who is anti-abortion, has set himself apart from Edelen and Beshear on social issues.
Spending has been heavy in the primary. Edelen’s campaign has spent over $2 million on advertising while Beshear’s campaign has spent $1.3 million on TV ads, according to Advertising Analytics. The pro-Edelen super PAC has spent about $1 million and Adkins’ campaign has spent about $900,000. That spending won’t let up in the general.
“Both sides will have gobs of money because it’s a bellwether for the next year, said Terry McBrayer, a lobbyist and former Democratic member of the Kentucky state House.
The tough primary has followed a tough few years for Kentucky Democrats generally, from Bevin’s 2015 gubernatorial win to Trump’s 2016 victory to star House candidate Amy McGrath’s narrow loss to GOP Rep. Andy Barr in 2018. And a former Democratic officeholder, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation, said the combination has sapped energy from the party, even when considering that the governor’s election is an off-year race that typically has lower turnout than presidential years.
“One of the problems right now is I don’t see a whole lot of Democratic enthusiasm, period,” the former Democratic elected official said. “All the years that I’ve been involved and watched Kentucky governors races I’ve never seen anything quieter.”
All the while, Bevin is preparing for a serious fight to keep his job. Republicans see the infighting as a helpful twist to help them prepare for the general election.
“While the Democrats have been busy fighting amongst themselves, we’ve had a perfect opportunity to begin laying the groundwork for the general election,” Republican Governors Association communications director Amelia Chasse Alcivar said.
Bevin has also maintained a helpfully close relationship with Trump, regularly phoning the president directly. Vice President Mike Pence has made multiple trips to the state and Trump is expected to campaign for Bevin after the primary — the biggest asset a red-state Republican governor could have.
“There’s going to be a Republican, Gov. Bevin, who is President Trump’s top partner in the country, against a Democrat who brags about Hillary Clinton who pushes socialist policies that Kentucky rejects,” said Bevin campaign manager Chip Englander.
Springtime means bright blooms, longer days, and a new class that’s getting ready to graduate. For you that means watching a woman you’re proud of accept her diploma, which also means you need to find the perfect gift for her.
Depending on her interests, your grad might have useful items on her wishlist like kitchen appliances or a new laptop, or she might want something a little more fun like a vlogging camera or some cool gadgets. Regardless, you want to make her feel special for earning her degree and this gift guide is sure to include something she’ll love.
There are plenty of ways to say “congratulations,” whether that’s through a heartfelt piece of jewelry or the latest tech products. You can go as sentimental or as utilitarian as you want — that’s the beauty of college graduation.
Check out 50 of our suggestions to shower the college grad with love on her big day:
Jake Paul, a 22-year-old millionaire who built a career out of peddling merch to children and being loud on the internet, took a brave stance against cyberbullying by calling out a reaction vlogger who made fun of him a few times.
Fellow YouTuber Cody Ko is known for making videos reacting to cringey content, from ASMR influencers eating deodorant to Christian women who slut shame others in the name of the Lord. He’s posted several videos criticizing Jake Paul for being a generally terrible influence on children, highlighting the diss track Paul dropped last year that told kids to disrespect their teachers.
Apparently Paul has had enough, and decided to “confront” his “internet bully” in a video posted on Saturday.
“Now he just shits on people to become famous,” Paul ranted in the first few minutes of his attempted takedown. “I’m not YouTube’s hero, I’m not here to save the day … this guy Cody Ko, he’s a cyberbully and I fucking hate cyberbullies.”
He also tried to land a jab against Ko’s previous career path — Paul first knew Ko when he was a “backend tech developer” at Fullscreen, a company that provides consultations to YouTubers. (Ko was a senior software engineer with a computer science degree from Duke University, but considering Paul’s disdain for teachers, it’s unlikely that he respects Ko’s formal education.)
“It’s consumed our generation, it’s consumed our society,” Paul continued on the subject of bullying. “I think it’s largely in part to do with these negative ‘trolls’ online … that just spread negativity into the earth. I want to put a voice up against it.”
As examples of his “bullying,” Paul showed clips of Ko calling someone’s awkward Instagram sketches “not comedy” and referring to a health supplement as “cum powder.”
“This guy is 28-years-old, sitting behind a computer making fun of kids younger than him,” Paul complained in his rant. “And he’s comedic, yes … he’s definitely crossing the line in a huge way.”
Paul decided to valiantly confront Ko in person while the latter was getting his hair cut for a video with another YouTuber, Jeff Wittek. When he burst into the appointment, Ko responded by literally screaming.
“I don’t want to fight,” Ko joked.
“He cyberbullies kids, bro,” Paul said, when Wittek asked him to “come in nicer.”
“Kids? You’re an adult. Which kids?” Ko asked in response.
“I don’t like cyberbullies, and you’re a cyberbully,” Paul continued. He declined to name “which kids” Ko had cyberbullied.
“I’m sorry for bullying you,” Ko finally conceded. “I can’t tell if he’s joking.”
The exchange, while probably well-intentioned, was incredibly painful to watch. Paul seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that as a celebrity, receiving genuine criticism isn’t the same as getting “bullied.” Twitter users mocked him for missing the point.
this messed me up. jake paul made a video confronting cody ko for making youtube videos critical of him. he legitimately thinks he’s standing up against a hateful cyberbully. it’s so hard to watch a millionaire with crazy influence not be able to separate criticism from hate pic.twitter.com/s5iBeNGGvP
Jake Paul making an entire video complaining about Cody Ko, the most unproblematic youtuber ever who really just sits at home with his gf, is major mister struggle vibes
— jeonghoe [daily quackity pics: pinned] (@quackity_hoe) May 19, 2019
Paul’s own reputation is marred by a string of problematic behavior, including bullying his former roommates into moving out of his Team 10 mansion, terrorizing his former neighbors with YouTube stunts, and most recently, throwing a wild party where at least one woman was allegedly drugged. To come after another content creator for calling him out for being repeatedly shitty isn’t just hypocritical, but actually pretty funny.
He’s just one of many celebrities who can’t take criticism — we saw a multitude of celebrity meltdowns in April, from Lizzo tweeting “PEOPLE WHO ‘REVIEW’ ALBUMS AND DONT MAKE MUSIC THEMSELVES SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED” after a lukewarm review of her album to Ariana Grande defending her very OK Coachella performance with her now-infamous “all them blogs” tweet.
Olivia Munn invoked #MeToo and induced some very long sighs when she compared criticism from a fashion blog to perpetuating the “suppression of women.” While some celebrities may have valid complaints about how harsh the media can get, Paul’s attempt at taking down Ko has an added layer of irony because he lacks any self-awareness of his own reputation.
As of Monday, neither YouTuber has released a formal statement via Notes app or a Laura Lee-style apology video. But Ko did comment about it on Twitter.
hey guys whats up just logged on sorry i was busy cyber bullying people
Maybe Paul was trying to capitalize on the internet’s love for cancel culture, riding the coattails of the James Charles/Tati Westbrook/Jeffree Star drama dump. But it’s unlikely anyone will try to cancel Cody Ko now, just because Jake Paul was the one calling for it. If it was any other influencer who had a valid claim that Ko had bullied them, instead of the internet’s most controversial success story, then Ko may have been more willing to listen.
Instead, Paul continues to make a fool of himself by going after a critic without looking at himself first.
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It’s a big win for House Democrats, though the president will surely appeal.
A federal judge upheld a congressional subpoena seeking President Donald Trump’s financial records from an accounting firm, dealing a blow to the president’s efforts to resist Democratic investigations.
U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling means that Mazars USA must comply with the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s subpoena for eight years of Trump’s financial records, though the president is certain to appeal the ruling.
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The president filed suit last month to block the subpoena, arguing that it amounted to an abuse of congressional authority.
Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) issued the subpoena to Mazars last month as part of the panel’s investigation into whether Trump committed financial crimes before he became president.
In particular, the committee has sought to corroborate specific claims made by Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. Earlier this year, Cohen turned over documents to the panel which purport to show that Trump artificially inflated and deflated the values of his assets to suit his personal financial benefit.
For example, Cohen told lawmakers that Trump submitted false financial statements to Deutsche Bank in 2014 as he was seeking a loan to buy the Buffalo Bills NFL team.
Mehta’s ruling represented the first time the federal judiciary has weighed in on the ongoing oversight battle between Trump and House Democrats. His ruling is likely to provide a blueprint for other judges who are set to make their own rulings on Trump’s vow to defy all congressional subpoenas.
Mehta heard arguments from Trump attorney William Consovoy and House General Counsel Douglas Letter last week, during which he cast serious doubt on Consovoy’s legal arguments. Consovoy contended that Congress has no legitimate authority to investigate whether the president violated the law, because such probes are handled by “law enforcement” entities and aren’t tied to a specific legislative remedy.
But Mehta pushed back strongly on Consovoy, stating those types of investigations are “strictly” within Congress’ purview. He also said Congress has authority to investigate conflicts of interest — for example, whether a president has a “financial interest in a particular piece of legislation that was being considered.”
In addition to the Mazars suit, Trump has asked a federal court to invalidate the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees’ subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One. Those subpoenas also seek Trump’s personal and business financial records, as part of a joint investigation centering on whether Trump is compromised, financially or otherwise, by foreign actors.
Trump and his GOP allies have argued that the Democrats’ probes are illegitimate and amount to an abuse of power.
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