Thursday, July 09, 2020

SCOTUS Tells Trump To Show Them Taxes!

The Supreme Court told Trump to hand over his taxes to 

Huge blow to Donald J. Trump.

The ruling will impact the U.S. election and also give American lawmakers a peak into how Trump became a billionaire. It will also reveal possible interactions with the Russian Federation.

Trump will continue to not show his taxes despite the Court's ruling.

The decision was 7-2.

The justices said that in the ruling that Trump cannot claim immunity from all investigations to stop his bank and accountants from handing over his tax returns going back to 2011. That New York state attorney Cyrus Vance is within his constitutional rights to obtain documents and tax returns from Trump. House and Senate lawmakers can subpoena

Trump has fought this biterly. He initially told the junk food media and Congress that he's still facing audits and he's trying to get his work together.

He showed his frustration on social media.












Chief Justice John Roberts along with Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Elena Kagan said that Trump is not above the law.

Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were picked by Trump and they sided with Roberts and the progressives.

Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas sided with Trump on the matter.

Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow, a conservative radio host and podcaster really fumbled in the Court. He argued for that Trump's tax returns were not available to the public due to ongoing issues with his accountants.

The public won't see the taxes just yet but it will be available to the federal courts and Congress.

Trump had paid hush money to adult entertainer and activist Stormy Daniels in a non-disclosure agreement. Trump hid allegations of an affair from the public during his run for president.
Trump is not above the law. He must hand over taxes to the federal prosecutors.
His former attorney Michael Cohen paid off Daniels in a set of hush money payments during the presidential election. Vance is commissioning an investigation into why Trump failed to acknowledge this payment during the elections.

The feds ordered Mazars USA and Deutsche Bank to hand over the tax returns and personal finances.

They must comply with the order or face non-compliance to federal order criminal charges/

Trump v. Vance was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude, or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President.

The ruling in the New York dispute makes it more likely that Trump's tax returns are eventually made public, though it's unclear if they would be disclosed before the November general election. More fundamentally, the decision flatly rejects Trump’s argument that a sitting president enjoys absolute immunity from investigations.

"In our judicial system, 'the public has a right to every man's evidence,'" Roberts wrote for the majority. "Since the earliest days of the Republic, 'every man' has included the President of the United States."





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