Opinions Trump's lawyers just made appalling arguments to the Supreme Court
When Donald Trump ran for president and claimed hed release his tax returns as soon as the IRS was done auditing them, it was an obvious lie. Since then, he has taken extraordinary steps to conceal what every president and party nominee in almost half a century has gladly offered to the public.
But his desperate attempts to keep the public from understanding his finances may finally be reaching their end though how long it will take to actually see the documents, or if we will at all, is far from clear.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in three separate lawsuits Trump has filed to stop officials from seeing those returns. The first two concern congressional subpoenas given to Mazars (his accounting firm) and Deutsche Bank (his bank). The third concerns an investigation by the district attorney of Manhattan.
It was hard to tell how the justices might rule. But what the arguments did reveal is the almost limitless scope of immunity he seeks. Trump believes he should be excused not just from congressional oversight, not just from criminal investigation, not just from questioning by the press, but even from politics itself.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)and the WH will still win...
Me.
(35,454 posts)underpants
(182,778 posts)Read a really long article on them this weekend
C_U_L8R
(44,999 posts)Spewing nothing convincing - more like fox news talking points designed for dopes. I hope the justices rolled their eyes at that over-reaching nonsense.