A federal appeals court said Friday that it would not step in to delay New York prosecutors ‘attempt to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax records, allowing him to leave the Supreme Court as his most promising option to block prosecutors’ allegations.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Trump’s request to immediately suspend Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s coup, while Trump appealed to try to invalidate it.
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The appeals court said it would hold a hearing on the request for a delay, but not until Sept. 1. After winning a lower court ruling, Vance’s office had agreed not to maintain the August 28 vote.
Trump’s bureau and lawyers did not immediately comment on what the higher court ruling could mean for that time frame.
The case has already been to the Supreme Court and back, and Trump has said he expects it to end there again.
Even if the tax records are eventually filed, they would not be made public automatically because they are sought as part of a confidential investigation by the grand jury.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that the presidency itself does not protect Trump from Vance’s investigation.
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But the high court returned the case to a federal judge in the courtroom in Manhattan to allow Trump’s lawyers to raise other concerns about the case. They did, claiming it was issued in bad faith, may have been politically motivated and threatened harassment.
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero dismissed those arguments – and then rejected a request by Trump’s lawyers to delay the enforcement of the summons while appealing his decision.
They asked the higher court for the same delay and received the answer on Friday.
Vance police said they were legally entitled to extensive records to support a “complex financial investigation.”
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Vance, a Democrat, began searching for the Republican president’s tax return from his longtime accounting firm more than a year ago after Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress that the president had tax officials, insurers and business people wrong about the value of his ability.
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Trump has blown up the search for his financial records as “the most disgusting witch hunt in our country’s history.”
