Many lawmakers have celebrated the rulings as a sign that the president is not above the law, but others see it as a subtle abdication of executive power.
, one of the most vocal proponents of the subpoena called the rulings “profoundly disappointing.”
“By allowing trump to run out the clock, the justices failed to make a resounding statement against his crimes,” Pascrell , adding “worse yet, the Court has today given the imperial executive yet more leeway to defy congressional oversight and further erode our already-fragile system of checks and balances.”Both Vance and President Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow spun the decisions as a victory. “This is a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one — not even a president — is above the law,”Vance, who declared that his investigation of Trump’s finances “will resume.
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