"DOJ tells Supreme Court that subpoenas for Trump's finances are unconstitutional"
"The Department of Justice is arguing in filings to the Supreme Court that the multiple subpoenas for President Trump's financial records are unconstitutional. The Justice Department argued that the Constitution prohibits local law enforcement from investigating the president and that Congress must overcome high hurdles when seeking information from him."
"That use of their limited and implied investigatory powers poses a serious risk of harassing the President and distracting him from his constitutional duties."
"State grand-jury subpoenas for a sitting President’s personal records pose serious risks to the independent functioning of the Office of the President," the department wrote. Such subpoenas could also subject the President to significant burdens, threatening to divert the President’s time and energy from his singularly important public duties."
"The D.C. and 2nd Circuit courts of appeals ruled last year that Trump's accounting firm and bank would have to comply with the subpoenas. Trump's personal legal team appealed the rulings, arguing that the president has broad immunity to subpoenas and even law enforcement investigation."
https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...-court-that-subpoenas-for-trumps-finances-are
In other words, billy barr is saying Trump could do just about anything he wanted and no local or State level authority could do anything about it, that he probably could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and NYPD couldn't investigate cause that might interfere with Trump doing his duties as President.
Amazing part about the New York case is that they are looking for records before Trump became President, in other words in his private life, and bill barr is telling America that they are still covered cause Trump is now President and he can't be bothered with such legalities
And to think it wasn't that long ago when the right was screaming that Obama was becoming a dictator, and that the one of the GOP's major party principles was a weakened Federal Gov't especially Executive power
"The Department of Justice is arguing in filings to the Supreme Court that the multiple subpoenas for President Trump's financial records are unconstitutional. The Justice Department argued that the Constitution prohibits local law enforcement from investigating the president and that Congress must overcome high hurdles when seeking information from him."
"That use of their limited and implied investigatory powers poses a serious risk of harassing the President and distracting him from his constitutional duties."
"State grand-jury subpoenas for a sitting President’s personal records pose serious risks to the independent functioning of the Office of the President," the department wrote. Such subpoenas could also subject the President to significant burdens, threatening to divert the President’s time and energy from his singularly important public duties."
"The D.C. and 2nd Circuit courts of appeals ruled last year that Trump's accounting firm and bank would have to comply with the subpoenas. Trump's personal legal team appealed the rulings, arguing that the president has broad immunity to subpoenas and even law enforcement investigation."
https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...-court-that-subpoenas-for-trumps-finances-are
In other words, billy barr is saying Trump could do just about anything he wanted and no local or State level authority could do anything about it, that he probably could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and NYPD couldn't investigate cause that might interfere with Trump doing his duties as President.
Amazing part about the New York case is that they are looking for records before Trump became President, in other words in his private life, and bill barr is telling America that they are still covered cause Trump is now President and he can't be bothered with such legalities
And to think it wasn't that long ago when the right was screaming that Obama was becoming a dictator, and that the one of the GOP's major party principles was a weakened Federal Gov't especially Executive power