Trump taxes - NY subpoena upheld by Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Torts Today: Trump taxes - NY subpoena upheld by Second Circuit Court of Appeals

"The President has not persuasively explained why, if executive privilege did not preclude enforcement of the subpoena issued in Nixon, the Mazars subpoena must be enjoined despite seeking no privileged information and bearing no relation to the President’s performance of his official functions. The Nixon Court explained that even the President’s weighty interest in candid and confidential conversations with his advisers could not justify a blanket privilege that would “cut deeply into the guarantee of due process of law and gravely impair the basic function of the courts.”"