{"id":41930,"date":"2019-12-13T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41930"},"modified":"2019-12-13T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T23:22:40","slug":"us-supreme-court-takes-up-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41930","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court takes up Trump bid to shield financial records"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States<\/a>\u00a0Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s appeals in three separate cases to prevent his financial records, including tax returns, being handed over to Democratic-led House of Representatives committees and a New York prosecutor.<\/p>\n

The Republican president is trying to block subpoenas for bank records, tax returns or other materials demanded by various Democratic-led House of Representatives committees investigating corruption or foreign meddling in the US elections process.<\/p>\n

The House probes are not part of the Democratic-led impeachment proceedings against Trump over his dealings with Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, a Democrat, is seeking Trump’s tax returns in a criminal investigation of the president, the Trump Organization and his family real estate business.<\/p>\n

The cases are a test for how the justices view Trump’s arguments that the subpoenas are a threat to the presidency, on the one hand, and the need for legislators or prosecutors for information to pursue legislation or criminal investigations on the other.<\/p>\n

The court has a 5-4 conservative majority including two Trump appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n

One of the cases is Trump’s appeal of a lower court ruling allowing a New York grand jury to subpoena his accounting firm Mazars LLP for his records.<\/p>\n

Trump’s lawyers said prosecutors could be encouraged to investigate a president to advance their careers or score political points if that subpoena is enforced.<\/p>\n

Another case concerns a lower court decision in Washington that endorsed subpoenas issued by the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee to Mazars.<\/p>\n

Trump’s lawyers say there was no legislative purpose for the subpoenas and that the aim was merely to dig for dirt on the president.<\/p>\n

In the third case, Trump is attempting to put on hold a lower court ruling allowing the enforcement of separate House committee subpoenas targeting Trump-related financial records from Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp.<\/p>\n

The lower court rulings in the congressional cases, if left intact, would bring House Democrats closer to getting some of the details about Trump’s business interests.<\/p>\n

That outcome would also amount to a major blow for the president, who, unlike past presidents, has refused to publicly disclose his tax returns.<\/p>\n

Legal experts say the justices often hear cases when the president asks them to, but that does not mean Trump will ultimately prevail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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