The Supreme Court Finally Lets the Light Shine on Trump

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Bill Blum | February 23, 2021

Like a mob boss looking for payback, Donald Trump wanted the Supreme Court to do him two favors heading into the November election: keep him in power and keep him out of jail. To its everlasting credit, the court quickly declined to deliver on the first. Even though Trump had nominated three arch-conservatives to the bench—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett—the court rejected his baseless challenges to the results of the election.

It took the court far too long to screw up the courage to decline the second favor, but in a one-sentence order issued on February 22, the court dismissed an emergency petition Trump’s lawyers had filed last October to stop Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. from enforcing a critical grand jury subpoena issued to the former president’s accounting firm—Mazars USA, LLP—as part of a wide-ranging criminal investigation involving Trump’s business practices.

Pending the court’s ruling on the petition, Vance had agreed to pause enforcement of the subpoena. And in the meantime, as the court dithered, New York’s five-year statute of limitations continued to tick away, threatening to derail the entire probe.

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Of all the potential avenues for indicting Trump now that he is out of office and has lost the immunity from prosecution that comes with the presidency, Vance’s probe, which began in 2018, offers the most immediate promise. Although New York grand jury proceedings are secret, it has been widely reported that Vance is investigating Trump not only for the hush money paid to pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford, aka “Stormy Daniels,” and onetime Playboy Magazine model Karen McDougal, but also to determine if other aspects of Trump’s private financial dealings have violated state fraud and income tax laws.

https://billmoyers.com/story/the-supreme-court-finally-lets-the-light-shine-on-trump/

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1. My god!! They screw up everything for trump!!!

Trump should have known, he was nominating ultra left liberals!!

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2. Only took four years, Good thing this obvious crook didn't get a position of power.

Oh, wait a minute.

He did. Even tried to overthrow the elected government.

There has to be a way to streamline these decisions. This was an open and shut case, with no real defense, similar to Trump's election lawsuits.

How in the world does it take four years for this? Just to enforce a lawful subpoena of evidence?

If this was about tax returns with my name or yours, this wouldn't last a day in court.