Vance’s office said in its submission to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that courts have previously rejected the claim that the sidewalk is too wide and has been issued in bad faith. The office further claimed that Trump had failed “to show irreparable damage” if the summons to his long-time accounting office, Mazars USA, remained enforceable and that the public interest weighed against his attempt to “interrupt presumably valid state criminal proceedings.”
“In short, although the applicant’s claim of ‘temporary absolute immunity’ has been denied at any level by the federal courts, by continuing to prosecute this action, he has effectively obtained temporary absolute immunity by receiving the receipt from the grand jury of the evidence it seeks, ”Vance’s office wrote. “As the court noted,”[j]ustice demands an end to this controversy. ‘”
In his submission Thursday, Vance’s office also noted that Trump’s argument before the appeals court “depends on the impossible premise that, at the time the Mazars issued Subpoena, the grand jury’s investigation was limited to payments made by Michael Cohen. made in 2016. ” Trump, however, “has been informed by this procedure that the grand jury’s investigation was not limited to Cohen’s 2016 payments,” the Vance office wrote.
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