President Trump's years-long battle to keep his tax and financial records secret now rests with the Supreme Court.
Richard WolfWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's years-long battle to keep his tax and financial records secret now rests with the Supreme Court.
Still more subpoenas have been issued by other House committees, all controlled by Democrats, seeking tax returns and financial records relating to Trump's private real estate business, as well as those of his family members and other entities. On the other hand, the court's conservative justices may want to intercede on the president's behalf if they see the various probes as a form of harassment – even if they don't buy his lawyers' assertion that he is immune from criminal investigation while in office.
"We do not doubt that some members of the committees, even as they pursued investigations for valid legislative purposes, hoped that the results of their inquiries would embarrass the president," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled Tuesday."But as long as the valid legislative purposes that the committees have identified are being pursued and are not artificial pretexts for ill‐motivated maneuvers, the committees have not exceeded their constitutional authority.
Both sides in the oversight panel's case are due to submit briefs to the Supreme Court in the coming days that will help the justices decide whether to hear the case or let the appeals court's ruling stand – in which case the records must be turned over.A similar timetable is unfolding in the New York criminal case, where Vance has both a stronger and a weaker position than the congressional committees.
Trump's lawyers have claimed absolute immunity from criminal investigations, going so far as to say the president could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and escape prosecution while he remained in office.
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