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Constitutional Law Keyed to Feldman
Trump v. Vance
Citation:
140 S. Ct. 2412 (2020)Facts
In 2018, the New York County District Attorney’s Office opened an investigation into potentially illegal business transactions involving multiple individuals. In 2019, the office served a grand jury subpoena on Mazars USA, LLP, President Trump’s personal accounting firm, seeking financial records relating to the President and his businesses, including tax returns from 2011 onward. The subpoena largely mirrored one issued by a congressional committee. President Trump, in his personal capacity, sued in federal court to block enforcement, arguing that Article II and the Supremacy Clause provide a sitting President absolute immunity from state criminal process. The District Court dismissed the case, and the Second Circuit affirmed, holding that presidential immunity did not bar enforcement of a state grand jury subpoena seeking non-privileged material from a third party, even when the investigation pertained to the President.
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