JUST IN: 'Courts in the past have given 'broad deference'. BUT NOT ME!' Pres. Trump tweets after Supreme Court rules against him on financial records subpoena in New York criminal investigation.
cannot block a subpoena for his financial records sought by a New York prosecutor, ruling he is not immune from criminal investigation.In the most recent time Chief Justice John Roberts has sided with the court's liberal side in a high-profile case, he wrote for the 7-2 majority,"Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude, or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President.
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn after arriving on Marine One at the White House in Washington, June 25, 2020."Two hundred years ago, a great jurist of our Court established that no citizen, not even the President, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.
In the cases of Trump v. Mazars USA LLP and Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG & Capital One, House committees subpoenaed a sweeping array of Trump personal and business records predating his time in the White House, including bank statements, engagement letters, personal checks, loan applications and tax returns. They say the information is critical to drafting of federal ethics laws, anti-corruption legislation and campaign finance rules involving presidents.In Trump v.
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