A view of the US Supreme Court in Washington; in May 2020 for the first time the nine justices, confined at home by the pandemic, have heard arguments by phone AFP/SAUL LOEBShare this contentWASHINGTON: Can Donald Trump refuse to turn over his tax returns and financial records to Congress and New York prosecutors? The Supreme Court takes up this politically charged question on Tuesday , and it may use the occasion to better define the limits of presidential immunity.
"There is clearly something in these documents that the president does not want us to see," Steven Mazie, an author and educator, said during a webinar. Having lost his argument in the lower courts, Trump turned to the nation's highest legal body. With two conservative Trump appointees on the nine-justice panel, the high court has taken a clear turn to the right.The justices will devote the first hour of Tuesday's oral arguments to the congressional subpoenas, highlighting a fierce battle over the legislature's investigative powers.
"What is unprecedented," they added,"is the extraordinary breadth of the arguments that President Trump and the solicitor general make about the supposed power of a president to thwart investigations." To Trump's legal team, the need for immunity is"particularly acute when it comes to state and local prosecutors".
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