Without comment or dissent — and after considerable delay — the Supreme Court this morning denied former President Trump’s effort to stop Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance from executing a subpoena for Trump’s personal financial information, including tax returns going back eight years.
This has been a peculiar litigation, and Rich Lowry and I discussed it on The McCarthy Report podcast on Friday. Recall that at the end of last term, the Court largely ruled against Trump’s effort to quash the subpoena — but in a way that guaranteed delay beyond Election Day and that was going to mean more work for the lower courts. In short (as I further detailed in this column), the Court denied the then-president’s claim of complete immunity from investigation, which was borderline frivolous; but the justices sent the case back to the lower courts with instructions to be mindful of the president’s awesome responsibilities and ensure that investigative demands were necessary and narrow — while simultaneously reaffirming the principle that no one is above the law and that a grand jury conducting a criminal investigation is entitled to relevant evidence.
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