What the Supreme Court Rulings Mean for 2 Investigations of Trump
Newsday
By Laura Figueroa Hernandez
July 9, 2020
Excerpt:
President Donald Trump has for years resisted releasing his tax returns for public scrutiny as typically was done by past presidential candidates. But even as the Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for New York prosecutors to obtain his records, legal analysts said it’s unlikely the public will see Trump’s tax returns before the general election.
Legal analysts said it’s unlikely the congressional case will move swiftly through the U.S. District Court system, especially with courts running under scaled-back conditions because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The decisions today are a loss for President Trump’s legal theory that he is categorically above the law,” said James Sample, a constitutional law professor at Hofstra Law School. “Politically, however, the White House strategy of obstructing the subpoenas and litigating every last aspect of the case, including the proceedings still to come, means the White House will successfully run out the clock such that voters will continue to be deprived of Trump’s financial records in 2020 just as voters were in 2016. Long-term, Donald Trump, the private citizen, will have to face the music, but short-term, President Trump’s delay of game tactics worked.”
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