President Trump’s attorneys on Friday filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block two banks from handing over financial records pertaining to him, his family and his private businesses.
The filing was made as part of the president’s legal efforts to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One from releasing the documents, requested in subpoenas issued by House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
In Friday’s filing, the president’s lawyers said that while the banks have agreed not to hand over the records until a judge makes an initial ruling in the case, they require an injunction in order to be able to fully argue in defense of the president.{mosads}
They added that if they lose this ruling, they will appeal the case to higher courts.
The attorneys wrote that Trump, his family and businesses “will suffer irreparable harm because, if this Court does not intervene to preserve the status quo, there will be no way to unring the bell once the Banks give Congress the requested information.”
“The Committees will have reviewed confidential documents that this Court may later determine were illegally subpoenaed. No damages award could ever make Plaintiffs whole. And the denial of temporary relief could prevent any meaningful judicial review of Plaintiffs’ claims.”
The president has also filed a separate lawsuit to block a subpoena from House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) seeking financial records on Trump from the accounting firm Mazars.
Trump has vowed to “fight all subpoenas” issued in the course of Democratic investigations into him and his administration.