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02 April 2020 / Michael Zander KC
Issue: 7883 / Categories: Features , Constitutional law
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Trump card: oral hearing postponed

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Michael Zander asks, is President Trump above the law?

The US Supreme Court, for the first time in its history, because of the coronavirus cancelled last month’s oral hearing to hear three cases brought by President Trump. In each case the president is seeking to stop presumably damaging information from being handed over.

Trump v Vance is to block the district attorney of New York City’s subpoena of Trump’s personal financial records including his tax returns for a grand jury investigation into whether several people committed crimes by paying hush money to Stormy Daniels, to stop her from talking about her sexual relations with Trump in 2006. Trump v Mazars and Trump v Deutsche Bank are to block respectively his accountancy firm and the bank from handing congressional committees similar records in connection with hearings as to whether the President misstated his assets to avoid tax liabilities or violated financial disclosure obligations. All the matters being investigated occurred before Trump became President.

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