#Appeals court agrees to delay release of Trump’s tax returns
“#Appeals court agrees to delay release of Trump’s tax returns”
September 1, 2020 | 2:08pm
The 2nd Circuit Court of appeals ordered the documents remain secret until at least Sept. 25, when they will hear merits argument in the president’s appeal to block a subpoena of the documents by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.
The legal battle to keep the tax information hidden stems from an investigation by Vance into Trump’s financial dealings.
The probe started with Vance eyeing hush-money payments made to two women who claimed during the 2016 presidential election that they had previously slept with Trump.
The investigation expanded, and Vance issued a subpoena to Trump’s longtime accounting firm Mazars for eight years of his tax returns.
After the subpoena, Trump’s attorneys blasted the probe in court filings as a “fishing expedition” and a witch hunt that was overly broad and issued in bad faith.
At the hearing Tuesday morning, an attorney for Vance argued the president and his attorneys purposefully highlighted the hush-money payments as the sole focus of Vance’s investigation, without knowing the full scope of the probe.
“Of course the focus can shift and expand over time,” attorney Carey Dunne said.
A judge on the appeals court panel responded by questioning how the president’s legal team could be expected to measure “overbreadth” in the probe if they do not know how wide-ranging the investigation is.
“Shouldn’t there be an ability to measure overbreadth?” Judge John Walker asked Dunne.
“It seems to me there is no way of measuring overbreadth,” he added.
In papers filed Monday night, Trump’s attorneys argued that Vance should not be able to “run roughshod” over the president and said the “the deck was clearly stacked against” Trump in the case.
Breaking with tradition, Trump refused to release his tax returns when he ran for president in 2016.
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