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Justice Department Amicus Brief in Mazars Case

Vishnu Kannan
Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 4:02 PM

On August 6, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Mazars, President Trump’s suit challenging a subpoena by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform for the release of Trump’s financial information. The case is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; oral arguments took place on July 12. The complete document is available here and below.

On August 6, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief in Trump v. Mazars, President Trump’s suit challenging a subpoena by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform for the release of Trump’s financial information. The case is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; oral arguments took place on July 12. The complete document is available here and below.


Vishnu Kannan is a 2L at Stanford Law School. Previously he was the advisor to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a researcher at Lawfare and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University where he studied international relations, political theory and economics.
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