Court rejects Trump’s plea to keep his financial records from Manhattan prosecutors
Donald Trump despaired once again as the Supreme court on Monday rejected the president’s last-chance effort to keep his private financial records from the Manhattan district attorney, ending a long legal battle.
The court denied Trump’s motion in a one-sentence order with no recorded dissents after delaying it for four months.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. has won every stage of the legal fight including the first round at the Supreme Court but has yet to receive the records he says are necessary for a grand jury investigation into whether the president’s companies violated state law.
Vance responded to the court decision with a three-word tweet: “The work continues.”
The current fight is a follow-up to last summer’s decision by the high court that the president is not immune from a criminal investigation while he holds office.
“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority in that 7 to 2 decision.
But the justices said Trump could challenge the specific subpoena, as every citizen may, for being overbroad or issued in bad faith.
