The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged Thursday President Trump
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“What the president’s attorneys are looking for here is delay,” Carey Dunne, an attorney for the district attorney’s office, said during a court hearing. “I think that is the whole strategy. With each passing day, the president gains the kind of absolute temporary immunity he has been seeking in this case, even though he has lost that claim to every court that heard him, including now the Court Supreme”. “
The president’s legal team, punished by the Supreme Court’s rejection of his claim that Trump is fully immune to the state grand jury investigation in question in the case, has shifted its focus to the remaining legal challenges at its disposal, to know, that the citation in question is too broad.
“We believe we can further argue, if the president decides to do so, that this is not a proper subpoena,” said William Consovoy, one of Trump’s attorneys.
Consovoy argued that because the subpoenas are identical to those issued by House committees investigating the president, they are likely to have to be significantly reduced and that the case will require a discovery process to allow for a more complete challenge against the office of the district attorney.
“Although the president has not had access to the entire statement from the district attorney’s office, we remain deeply skeptical that a subpoena from a New York county is fortuitously exactly the same scope and characteristics as two different federal investigations focused on issues federal, “Consovoy said.
The president’s legal team has vowed to continue to fight the subpoenas, which were directed at Trump’s accountants, using legal challenges different from those of the Supreme Court.
The high court ruled 7-2 last week that the president has no special immunity to such grand jury subpoenas. But in the majority decision, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that “the president can make use of the same protections available to all other citizens, including the right to challenge the citation for any reason allowed by law state, which generally includes bad faith and undue burden or breadth. “
Roberts also wrote that the president may pose legal challenges that are tailored to specific subpoenas, such as arguing that the investigative lawsuit is designed to influence his official actions or that complying with them would prevent him from carrying out the duties of his office.
Trump’s attorneys have until July 27 to file a new lawsuit against the district attorney’s office.
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