Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner lauded Judge Amit Mehta and criticized Donald Trump’s attorney William Consovoy after the lawyer challenged a subpoena from Democratic lawmakers for the president’s financial records in court on Tuesday.
“It really had the air,” the legal expert said, “of Judge Mehta as a learned, stern but fair, law professor sort of schooling and tutoring the president’s lawyer who came across as like a C, C- law student.” Although Mehta, a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, did not yet decide whether he will rule against the president’s challenge, his statements in court suggested that he was not convinced by Consovoy’s arguments. Trump’s attorney argued that the subpoena for the president’s financial records fell outside Congress’s oversight function as it did not have a specific legislative purpose.
Mehta said, however, that he would take time to consider the case more closely before issuing his ruling. The judge gave both sides the chance to submit additional legal filings in regards to the case until the end of the week, saying the case was too significant to decide immediately.
So he's got a shit lawyer? He must be clean?