NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyers filed fresh arguments Monday to try to block or severely limit a criminal subpoena for his tax records, calling it a harassment of the president.
Join our WhatsApp groupSubscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Lawyers filed a rewritten lawsuit in Manhattan federal court to challenge the subpoena by Manhattan’s state prosecutor on grounds they believe conform with how the U.S. Supreme Court said the subpoena can be contested.
The high court ruled earlier this month that a Manhattan prosecutor could subpoena tax records from Trump’s accountant over his objections.
But the court said he could challenge the subpoena as improper just as anyone else can.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that the president could not be criminally investigated while he was in office.
In their new court papers, Trump’s lawyers said the subpoena of his tax records was “wildly overbroad” and “amounts to harassment of the President.”
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., a democrat, has requested eight years of the Republican president’s personal and corporate tax records.
The Supreme Court returned the case to a federal judge in Manhattan who has arranged for both sides to finish filing their legal arguments over challenges to the subpoena by mid-August.
Last year, the same judge ruled against Trump in a written opinion that was upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
Hardly matters. In the long run he cannot hide this information. He cannot hide from History.
Let Plastic Pelosi , Schiff , Shumer , Nadler and Biden show their tax returns.
We don’t give a swine’s belch about Trump’s taxes.
Will be a long while before Vance sees the records and we may never see the tax returns at all. This is going nowhere fast.
Every President since Reagan have released them. Why is Trump so special? Maybe there is something he does not want to the voters to see… .