The President's Tax Returns and the Supreme Court
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court today held arguments in a blockbuster case. Do the Trump tax returns and associated financial documents at firms like Mazars and Deutsche Bank need to be turned over in response to congressional subpoenas and a subpoena by a New York State grand jury? Joining Benjamin Wittes to discuss it are Steve Vladeck, Quinta Jurecic and Margaret Taylor. They talked about how this confrontation developed between Congress and the executive, what the background law is and whether this should be in fact a very easy case, and where the justices seemed to be going and how they don't seem to be going in the direction of their prior precedents.
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| 0:56.6 | I think there was never going to be much of an appetite for the absolute position |
| 1:01.4 | that the president's personal lawyers took. |
| 1:03.6 | I think the real question is, do the justices agree with Don that they're so little daylight |
| 1:09.9 | between his position and the SGs? |
| 1:12.4 | And if so, is that enough to affirm the decision below or is that required of vacate and |
| 1:18.1 | remand if the justices aren't convinced that the district court, that the second circuit |
| 1:24.2 | that even the state trial court properly considered the relevant burden? |
| 1:29.9 | I'm Benjamin Withiss and this is the LawFair podcast May 12, 2020. |
| 1:36.3 | The Supreme Court today held arguments in a blockbuster case. |
| 1:42.2 | Do the Trump tax returns and associated financial documents at firms like Mazar's and Deutsche |
| 1:49.7 | Bank need to be turned over in response to congressional subpoenas and subpoena by a |
| 1:56.7 | New York State grand jury. |
| 1:59.9 | It was a long set of arguments with multiple parties and we have a discussion that covers |
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