JUST IN: Federal judge rejects President Trump’s argument that he is immune from criminal investigations as part of his bid to block a subpoena from Manhattan DA seeking his tax returns.
A federal judge Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that he was immune from criminal investigations as part of his bid to block aof personal and business tax returns.
The judge, Victor Marrero, tossed the lawsuit Trump's legal team brought against District Attorney Cyrus Vance that argued Vance should not receive Trump's tax returns because"'[v]irtually all legal commenters agree' that a sitting President of the United States is not 'subject to the criminal process' while he is in office.”
In a 75-page order, Marrero called the presidential immunity Trump invoked in the lawsuit to stop the production of tax documents"unqualified and boundless.""The president asserts an extraordinary claim in the dispute now before this court," Marrero wrote."This Court cannot endorse such a categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from" the judicial process.
A grand jury subpoena for the documents was issued by the Manhattan D.A.’s office to Mazars USA, which prepares the president’s tax returns, a little more than a month ago as part a probe into the Trump Organization about payments made to two women who allegedly had affairs with the president. Trump has denied the affairs.The White House, Trump's attorneys and the Manhattan district attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment from NBC News.
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