Full-Court Press!

December 14, 2019

Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has agreed to hear a consolidation of three disputed-subpoena cases brought by Donald Trump against various entities seeking his tax records.

Finally, there may be an end mid-2020 to the question whether this sitting would-be king is subject to any investigative or criminal legal process at all. (Trump has argued in many cases that he has absolute immunity from prosecutorial or investigative process while a sitting president, an extreme claim that the appeals courts so far have summarily dismissed.)

Oral arguments will be in March, and a decision is expected by June 2020.

One case is from Southern District of New York (SDNY) prosecutors seeking accounting records from Trump's accounting firm, Mazar USA, in pursuit of a criminal investigation of Trump's criminal liability in paying hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen

McDougal on the eve of the 2016 election. You may recall that Trump's one-time attorney and long-time fixer Michael Cohen is serving a 3-year prison sentence in part for executing Trump's instructions to enable that hush-money payment.

The second and third of these cases flow from Congressional oversight and legislative efforts to determine whether Trump committed fraud or otherwise double-dealt in his business dealings, pre-inaugural conduct.

The second subpoena was from the House Commitee on Oversight and Reform and pursued whether Trump systematically overstated his real estate assets to investors while understating the same to the Internal Revenue Service (as Michael Cohen has testified under oath).

The third case stems from a House Financial Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee subpoena. This subpoena is for bank records in pursuit of illegal business activities by Trump like money laundering.

Trump is a narcissist and a wanna-be king. He thinks himself above the law. And he always has thought so. For example, when he and his father were violating fair housing laws in Manhattan in the mid-1970s, illegally denying blacks housing in their rental properties.

Trump's fraud, racism, abuse, lying, and evasion are legend.

Legend, a legacy of which this narcissist POTUS is proud.

In all three cases accepted yesterday on appeal to SCOTUS, Trump lost in the courts below.