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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts) Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:35 AM Jun 2020

Supreme Court should rule on Trump tax returns Wednesday or Thursday - done for today

Elie Honig @eliehonig (CNN Legal Analyst)

Supreme Court should rule on Trump tax returns today, Weds., or Thurs. Keep in mind there are *two* distinct issues: (1) House subpoenas for legislative purposes, and (2) Manhattan DA's criminal subpoena. The Court could split it, upholding (2) but not (1). They're done issuing opinions now -- didn't happen today.

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Supreme Court should rule on Trump tax returns Wednesday or Thursday - done for today (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 OP

I'm just afraid they will 5 to 4 cover for the dumpster fire.... wcmagumba Jun 2020 #1

I can't believe this should be close. bluestarone Jun 2020 #2

By refusing to make trump show his taxes for either case, duforsure Jun 2020 #3

This shouldn't even be at SCOTUS ScratchCat Jun 2020 #4

Uh oh, they're leaving it for Get-Out-of-Dodge day. UTUSN Jun 2020 #5

leaving it to literally last makes me think it must stink to high heaven rurallib Jun 2020 #6

I'm as optimistic as I was with Bob Mueller. jalan48 Jun 2020 #7

+1. dalton99a Jun 2020 #8

wcmagumba

(2,883 posts)

1. I'm just afraid they will 5 to 4 cover for the dumpster fire....

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:45 AM

Jun 2020

Roberts will want to pull back from his recent sensible decisions to get some right wing glow back...imo

bluestarone

(16,906 posts)

2. I can't believe this should be close.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:59 AM

Jun 2020

At least a 6-3 decision is what it should be! (actually it should be 9-0)

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

3. By refusing to make trump show his taxes for either case,

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:21 AM

Jun 2020

Will just make it harder to prevent and contain corruption from people within our government. It would become a free pass , and promote more criminals running . If trump threatened or bribed them or something else and they didn't recuse from the case they could see legal consequences , and should be removed from their lifetime position. He i think has tampered with the Justices, when hasn't he tried doing that.

ScratchCat

(1,981 posts)

4. This shouldn't even be at SCOTUS

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:30 AM

Jun 2020

And it should be 9-0

My fear is that there will be 5 justices who find wiggle room to send this back to the lower court which will then allow trump to "run out the clock" on his Presidency. There is just no way 5 justices rule that the court - not Congress - gets to decide what is and what isn't "legislative" matters. There is no State-Federal conflict here. There are no conflicting court cases. Nine justices can be honest here or or the country is over.