A Supreme Court ruling in the case would come less than 6 months before Americans go to the polls in November 2020.
"We are pleased that the Supreme Court granted review of the president's 3 pending cases," Jay Sekulow, Trump's personal attorney, said in a statement."These cases raise significant constitutional issues.The Supreme Court – where conservative judges are in the majority – said it will hear arguments in March with a decision to be issued before the court session ends June 30.
A Supreme Court ruling in the case would come less than 6 months before Americans go to the polls in November.Trump is the first US president since Richard Nixon not to make his tax returns public, claiming they are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.to force the release of his tax returnsIn those cases, the committees have issued subpoenas for records from Deutsche Bank and the president's accounting firm, Mazars USA.
A federal appeals court ruled that Trump must hand over the documents but the president's attorneys appealed, arguing that he enjoys immunity from both prosecution and investigation. "A lone county prosecutor cannot circumvent this arrangement," they said."That the Constitution would empower thousands of state and local prosecutors to embroil the President in criminal proceedings is unimaginable."on whether he should be impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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