(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a case related to leftist Democrat lawmakers’ dubious attempt to gain access to documents related to a Washington, D.C., hotel formerly owned by Donald Trump during his presidency.
The lawsuit was dismissed by Democrats last month after the Biden Justice Department appealed a lower court’s decision to the Supreme Court.
According to The Hill, both the DOJ and lawmakers requested that the Supreme Court dismiss the case as “moot.”
Consequently, the justices vacated the lower court’s ruling and provided instructions on how to dismiss the case. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, dissented from the order, proposing an alternative method for dismissing the case.
The case garnered significant attention due to Democrats’ pursuit of legal action against Trump. It centered on the question of whether lawmakers had the legal right to sue for access to private documents.
“Three weeks after the Court granted review, respondents filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in district court,” the Biden DOJ wrote to the Court. “Although that notice does not of its own force terminate proceedings in this Court, respondents’ abandonment of their claims does render this case moot.”
As The Hill reported, Democrats agreed to have the case tossed, despite previous calls not to have the Court involved.
“Here, respondents do not appear to have formally withdrawn their Section 2954 request or explicitly renounced any attempt to seek the disputed documents in the future,” Democrats wrote. “But under the circumstances, their notice in the district court and letter to this Court should be regarded as a definitive abandonment of their claims.”
Democrats dubiously claimed that the Trump organization’s contract with the General Services Administration to turn the Old Post Office Pavillion into a luxury hotel raised conflicts of interest.
Trump owned the hotel until 2022.
