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United States President Donald Trump hopes to persuade a Supreme Court this week with two of his appointees to prevent his tax and other financial records from being made public.
Judges are hearing arguments over the phone tomorrow in a fundamental legal fight that could affect the presidential campaign, even with the coronavirus outbreak and the resulting economic consequences.
The rulings against the President could result in the rapid disclosure of personal financial information that Trump has vigorously sought to keep private.
Judges have been hearing cases on the phone this month in an effort to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are over 65 years old.
Trump has resisted calls to release his tax returns since before his election in 2016. Now, along with the Justice Department, he is appealing lower court rulings that determined subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives and the US attorney Manhattan district to your longtime accounting firm. and two banks for years of tax returns, bank records and other financial documents are valid.
The President presents broad arguments to try to hinder House Democrats. In the case involving the criminal investigation initiated by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, Trump claims that while in office, he cannot even be investigated.
His Supreme Court arguments are based on law review articles that will be very familiar to a member of the court.
“At the end of the day, ‘a president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation will almost inevitably do a worse job as president,'” Trump’s lawyers told the court, citing a 2009 article by now Judge Brett. Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh, appointed by Trump, previously worked on the independent lawyer Ken Starr’s investigation into President Bill Clinton, which led to Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. He was acquitted by the Senate the following year.
Kavanaugh is quoted five times in the Trump Supreme Court’s main brief in the Vance case. Judge Neil Gorsuch is the other appointed by the Trump superior court.
Trump has so far lost at every step, but the records have not been released pending a final court ruling.
The congressional subpoenas case has significant implications regarding a president’s power to deny a formal request from Congress. In a separate fight in federal appeals court in Washington, DC, over a congressional demand for the testimony of former White House attorney Don McGahn, the administration presents equally broad arguments that the president’s close advisers are ” absolutely immune “to having to appear. .
The House argues that Congress has very broad subpoena powers and that the courts should be reluctant to interfere with them. “Many momentous separation of powers disputes were brought before this Court,” the Chamber wrote in its main brief from the Supreme Court. “This dispute … is not one of them.”
In two previous cases, the judges acted unanimously by requiring President Richard Nixon to turn over the White House tapes to the Watergate special counsel and by allowing a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton to continue.
In those cases, three people named by Nixon and two people from Clinton, respectively, voted against the president who elected them to the higher court. A designated Nixon room, William Rehnquist, handled the tapes case because he had worked closely as a Justice Department official with some of the Watergate conspirators whose upcoming trial stimulated the subpoena for the Oval Office recordings.
The citations are not directed at Trump himself. Instead, House committees want records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One, as well as from accounting firm Mazars USA. Mazars is also the recipient of Mr. Vance’s subpoena.
Two congressional committees cited the bank documents as part of their investigations of Trump and his business. Deutsche Bank has been one of the few banks willing to lend money to Trump after a series of bankruptcies and corporate defaults that began in the early 1990s.
Vance and the House of Representatives Reform and Oversight Committee sought Mazars records on Trump based on payments that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen arranged to prevent two women from relaying their claims of affairs to Trump during the race. 2016 presidential.
Irish independent
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