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On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld a subpoena issued by New York prosecutors to access President Trump's tax records. In doing so, the decision rejects Trump's assertion that sitting presidents should be exempt from criminal investigations while in office. Both of Trump's SCOTUS appointees, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, ruled against him.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld a subpoena issued by New York prosecutors to access President Trump's tax records. In doing so, the decision rejects Trump's assertion that sitting presidents should be exempt from criminal investigations while in office. Both of Trump's SCOTUS appointees, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, ruled against him.

  1. Jul 9

    BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds a New York grand jury subpoena for Trump’s tax returns and other financial records, rejecting his call to give presidents complete immunity from criminal investigation while in office.

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  2. Jul 9

    The Supreme Court ruled that Mazars USA, LLP, the personal accounting firm Trump used, must comply with a grand jury subpoena the New York County District Attorney issued to investigate “business transactions” involving President Trump “whose conduct may have violated state law.”

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  3. Jul 9

    : The Supreme Court refuses to invalidate the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena for nearly 10 years of President Trump’s tax records from his longtime accounting firm. The vote is 7-2. Roberts has the opinion. Thomas and Alito dissent.

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  4. Jul 9

    Ruling is 7-2 with Chief Justice writing and conservatives Alito and Thomas dissenting. Both of Trump's appointees, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, ruled against him

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  5. Jul 9

    Chief Justice Roberts for the Court: In our judicial system, the public has a right to every man’s evidence. Since the earliest days of the Republic, “every man” has included the President of the United States.

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  6. Jul 9

    SCOTUS sides with the NY prosecutor who subpoenaed Trump's financial records. "The President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need."

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  7. Jul 9

    7-2 SCOTUS decision that Trump's tax returns can be subpoenaed. Only Alito & Thomas dissent. Robert's opinion: "no citizen, not even the President, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding."

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  8. Jul 9

    Here is the 7-2 opinion from Chief Justice Roberts in Trump v. Vance. Dissents from Thomas and Alito.

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  9. Jul 9

    US Supreme Court gives President Trump a chance to beat back House Democrats’ efforts to obtain his financial records, but ruled he is not immune from Manhattan district attorney’s attempt to get his taxes.

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  10. Jul 9

    In Trump v. Mazars, Trump wins this stage of dispute over congressional subpoenas to lenders and accountant for president’s financial records as , 7-2, sends case back to lower courts to take account of separation of powers concerns

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  11. Jul 9

    BREAKING: Trump can’t block release of his financial records to NY prosecutors but lower courts must take another look at whether Congress may see them.

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  12. Jul 9

    BREAKING Supreme Court sends congressional cases back to lower courts for more consideration of "significant separation of powers concerns implicated by congressional subpoenas for the President’s information." again, 7-2

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  13. Jul 9

    Roberts explains that while all citizens have to comply with congressional subpoenas, subpoenas for information of the president "implicate special concerns regarding the separation of powers" that the D.C. Circuit didn't adequately consider.

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  14. Jul 9

    Two major caveats in the Supreme Court decision on the New York district attorney seeking the president's taxes — The president still has another shot to present arguments in a lower court And even if tax returns are handed over, they may not become public

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  15. Jul 9

    So long story short, Trump losses in NYC case, but those documents are subject to confidentiality. So President's financial records seem unlikely to become public before 2020 election as sent the Congressional cases back to lower courts for further review.

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  16. Jul 9

    The Supreme Court sends case back to Lower Court, arguments to continue. This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!

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  17. Jul 8

    The Supreme Court delivered a win to the Trump administration on Wednesday, ruling that employers may be exempt from Obamacare mandates to provide birth control on the basis of religious objection.

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