The Supreme Court on Friday accepted the request of the Manhattan District Attorney to expedite his recent decision to reject President Trump
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Court President John Roberts ordered the decision to take effect immediately. The president’s legal team did not oppose the measure.
The order will allow the remaining procedures at the district court level to proceed more quickly. It normally takes almost a month for Supreme Court decisions to take effect.
The court ruled 7-2 last week that the president does not have absolute immunity in state criminal investigations such as the one that led to a grand jury subpoena for Trump’s financial records. But the judges said in their decision that the president can still challenge the subpoena for other reasons.
Trump’s lawyers made it clear this week that they intend to do just that, as local prosecutors accused the president of trying to force a delay.
“What the president’s lawyers are looking for here is delay,” Carey Dunne, an attorney for the district attorney’s office, said during a court hearing Thursday. “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 has until July 27 to raise his new legal challenges to the subpoena.
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