Recall sometime last month, President Trump announced Judge Amy Coney Barnett as his Supreme Court pick. Barnett is a favorite among Republicans due to her narrow interpretation of the Constitution, her strict conservative beliefs, and ardently pro-life opinions.
She was a frontrunner for the seat that ultimately went to Justice Brett Kavanaugh back in 2018. At the time, Trump said he was “saving Barrett for Ginsburg.”
Now, Amy Coney Barrett is preparing to join the Supreme Court as the justices are ready to take action on a number of important petitions before them, including Trump’s Tax case.
Barrett will solidify a 6-3 conservative majority on the high court and will be able to participate in the court’s action on the petitions, potentially giving Republican litigants an additional ally as the justices review the various requests.
According to Washington CNN, The justices are primed to decide soon whether a New York prosecutor will get access to Trump’s financial documents from January 2011 to August 2019, including his tax returns.
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Last July, the Supreme Court, voting 7-2, rejected the President’s broad claims of immunity from a state criminal subpoena seeking his tax returns and said that as president he was not entitled to any kind of heightened standard unavailable to ordinary citizens.
The justices sent the case back to the lower court so that the President could make more targeted objections regarding the scope of the subpoena.
Trump’s lawyers told the lower courts that the subpoena was overbroad and issued in bad faith, but the courts once again rejected those arguments.
An appellate court ruled earlier this month that “there is nothing to suggest that these are anything but run-of-the-mill documents typically relevant to a grand jury investigation into possible financial or corporate misconduct.”
Trump’s personal lawyers then took the case back to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to put the lower court ruling on hold while the justices considered whether to take up the appeal.
If the justices deny the request, the subpoena can go forward although the documents will be shielded from public release because of grand jury secrecy rules.
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