Another shameful act of enabling Donald Trump by a cowardly U.S. Supreme Court this morning. The Supreme Court ordered the two Emoluments Clause cases, Trump v. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 20-330, and Trump v. District of Columbia, 20-331, to be dismissed on the specious ground that now that Donald Trump is no longer … Read more
NBC News reports some expected news today, Trump loses on tax subpoena, another legal setback: A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to block a subpoena from a New York grand jury for several years’ worth of President Donald Trump’s tax records, a further legal setback in his efforts to keep his returns out of the … Read more
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a temporary stay to September 25, when the court will hear oral argument in Donald Trump’s never-ending attempt to prevent his financial documents in the possession of his accountant, Mazars USA, from being produced to the Manhattan D.A., Cyrus Vance, Jr. The Washington Post reports, Court temporarily … Read more
Update to Second Circuit denies stay, sets September 1 hearing for Trump financial records. While the Manhattan DA, Cyrus Vance, Jr. has a September 1 hearing date, let’s not forget that there is another long-running investigation into the financial records of the Trump crime family’s criminal enterprise in New York. The New York Times reports … Read more
Update to Judge rejects Trump’s attempt to obstruct production of financial records to Cyrus Vance. I suggested that “given the fact that Trump’s lawyers basically reargued the same set of facts previously litigated all the way up to the Supreme Court, it is possible that the court of appeals will take the position “we’ve already … Read more