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Today, Explained

Supreme Tax Court

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Supreme Court issued its remaining decisions today for the 2020 term, including the biggie: Trump’s tax returns. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Supreme Court wrapped up its 230th season today.

0:16.4

Everyone was waiting to hear what the nine justices would say about President Trump's

0:21.5

taxes, including us back in December of 2019.

0:25.5

Remember 2019, we previewed the tax cases with Andrea Bernstein from WNYC's Trump

0:31.9

Inc. podcast.

0:32.9

Today, we're going to replay some of that detailed background Andrea provided before

0:38.8

going to our pal Ian Milheiser to talk about the results.

0:42.9

Here we go.

0:47.9

So there are two cases that stem from congressional subpoenas that Trump sued so as not to have

0:58.0

his tax returns turned over.

1:00.2

And those are Trump v. Meizards and Trump v. Deutsche Bank.

1:03.1

Yes.

1:04.1

And the third case is the Manhattan District Attorney.

1:07.3

And this case arises from an investigation into Trump's business that came from the

1:14.1

Stormy Daniels case.

1:16.3

A piece of it got sent to the Manhattan DA.

1:18.5

The Manhattan DA began investigating requested Trump's tax returns.

1:23.0

And at that point, Trump sued the DA.

1:25.2

So that's the third case Trump events.

1:27.3

And I guess this story begins during the 2016 campaign when candidate Trump breaks with

1:32.8

tradition and refuses to release his tax returns.

1:37.1

How rich is this tradition of sharing your financial information?

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