Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:33 AM

kentuck (100,966 posts)

Trump files new challenge to NY subpoena for his tax returns

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vance-idUSKCN24S2NE?utm_source=34553&utm_medium=partner

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(Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday filed a new challenge to the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena for his tax returns, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court said the president was not immune from state criminal probes.

In a second amended complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyers argued that the subpoena was “wildly overbroad,” and was issued in “bad faith” and amounts to “harassment.”

The subpoena “is so sweeping that it amounts to an unguided and unlawful ‘fishing expedition’ into the President’s personal and financial dealings,” Trump’s lawyers wrote in the complaint.

Trump, who is seeking re-election on Nov. 3, asked the court to declare the subpoena invalid.

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7 replies	Author	Time	Post
Trump files new challenge to NY subpoena for his tax returns (Original post)	kentuck	Jul 2020	OP
He must really have stuff to hide	malaise	Jul 2020	#1
He's been abusing the court/legal system all of his life. It's his business model.	Liberal In Texas	Jul 2020	#2
Rinse and repeat	VMA131Marine	Jul 2020	#3
The SCOTUS blew it on this one.	Laelth	Jul 2020	#4
Yea i think they knew what they were giving trump	Fullduplexxx	Jul 2020	#5
I agree.	Laelth	Jul 2020	#6
+1000000	crickets	Jul 2020	#7

Response to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:34 AM

malaise (225,704 posts)

1. He must really have stuff to hide

but we already know that. Damn I detest this man

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:47 AM

Liberal In Texas (10,595 posts)

2. He's been abusing the court/legal system all of his life. It's his business model.

The repubs are always screaming "frivolous lawsuit" when it comes to people trying to get justice for being injured or killed by defective products or corporate negligence. But when they want to use the legal system for what is usually financial advantage or to tie up or to run out the clock on the will of the people, that's just fine.

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:48 AM

VMA131Marine (3,221 posts)

3. Rinse and repeat

This will get thrown out, appealed, thrown out, appealed, and so on

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 07:54 AM

Laelth (31,913 posts)

4. The SCOTUS blew it on this one.

They chose not to be “political.” They don’t want to be accused of influencing the election, but they did so anyway—in Trump’s favor. They remanded the case. They should have settled the matter once and for all.

-Laelth

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 09:05 AM

Fullduplexxx (4,151 posts)

5. Yea i think they knew what they were giving trump

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Tue Jul 28, 2020, 09:38 AM

Laelth (31,913 posts)

6. I agree.

Perhaps giving a free pass to Trump was the price the liberals had to pay for a couple of key votes from Chief Justice Roberts on other cases pending that term. There were a couple of shockers.

-Laelth

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Response to Laelth (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 28, 2020, 10:33 AM

crickets (16,559 posts)

7. +1000000

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