{"id":160122,"date":"2021-02-22T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160122"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:13:39","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trump-image.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former president Donald Trump\u2019s bid to shield his financial records from a Manhattan grand jury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The order clears the way for Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance to enforce a subpoena for Trump Organization financial records and tax statements going back eight years. There was no noted dissent and an explanation was not given, as is typical of such orders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in The Courts<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\"><strong>Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/whitehouse-pushes-justice-dept-to-support-controversial-donor-disclosure-rule\/\"><strong>Whitehouse Pushes Justice Dept. to Support Controversial Donor Disclosure Rule<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/biden-yanks-trump-backed-hispanic-nominee-to-federal-appeals-court\/\"><strong>Biden Yanks Trump-Backed Hispanic Nominee to Federal Appeals Court<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The exact contours of Vance\u2019s probe are unclear, though he\u2019s acknowledged in legal filings that it covers alleged hush money payments made to supposed Trump paramours via the former president\u2019s onetime confidant Michael Cohen. Vance is not likely to seek reelection, and he recently hired an ex-federal prosecutor and accomplished white-collar defense lawyer as a special counsel, prompting speculation that the DA is readying an all-or-nothing thrust at the former president.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday\u2019s decision is an unqualified victory for Vance, but it won\u2019t give other Trump critics long-sought access to his tax records. The records Vance will obtain will be governed by grand jury secrecy rules, so they won\u2019t be made public for the foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump sought to quash Vance\u2019s subpoena, arguing that a sitting president has &#8220;absolute immunity&#8221; from state court proceedings while in office. The Supreme Court<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/supreme-court-gives-manhattan-prosecutor-access-to-trump-financial-records-but-rebuffs-house-democrats\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rejected<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that argument in a July 2020 decision. But it did allow a second round of litigation, in which Trump could argue the subpoena was over-broad and issued in bad faith.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in lower courts, Trump\u2019s legal team accused Vance of exploiting the Cohen investigation to gain a comprehensive view of Trump\u2019s personal and professional finances. The subpoena seeks records from Trump\u2019s accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, and 10 other entities or joint ventures involving Trump, some of which are based in different countries including Indonesia and Turkey. They also argued the subpoena\u2019s wide scope showed malice on Vance\u2019s part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero and the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Vance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It is neither unusual nor unlawful for grand juries to paint with a broad brush, especially in a complex financial investigation,&#8221; the Second Circuit\u2019s decision reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Returning to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch bid to put the Manhattan DA off, Trump\u2019s lawyers argued the lower courts &#8220;stacked the deck&#8221; against him, emphasizing the speed with which the case moved after the first Supreme Court appeal. They repeatedly noted that Marrero handed down a 103-page opinion rejecting his second-round arguments just 24 days after they were submitted, an unusually quick turn-around for a federal court. That opinion rejected Trump\u2019s arguments in breezy fashion, Trump\u2019s lawyers argued, but Marrero said they were simply repackaged versions of the original &#8220;absolute immunity&#8221; position.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vance agreed that there was nothing new in Trump\u2019s second-round arguments, making rapid dispatch appropriate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;[Trump] has had multiple opportunities for review of his constitutional and state law claims, and at this juncture he provides no grounds for further delay,&#8221; Vance told the justices in legal filings. &#8220;His request for extraordinary relief should be denied, and the grand jury permitted to do its work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump\u2019s bid to pause the Vance subpoena reached the High Court in October 2020, but the justices waited until Trump became a private citizen to reject his application.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monday\u2019s case is No. 20A63<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trump<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">v.<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vance<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former president Donald Trump\u2019s bid to shield his financial records from a Manhattan grand jury.\u00a0 The order clears the way for Manhattan district attorney &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273930,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trump-image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/trump-image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}