COURT: Trump Can’t Claim Immunity On Tax Returns

CNN reports:

In the long saga of Donald Trump’s tax returns, Monday was a very important day. A three-judge federal appeals court ruled that Trump cannot claim presidential immunity to avoid eight years of his tax returns being subpoenaed by a grand jury. Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow immediately released a statement saying that Trump will appeal the ruling.

Which is what we expected when this all began. People weren’t going to stop trying to get the President’s tax returns. And the President made a decision a long time ago that he wasn’t handing them over without a major fight.

What is most interesting, however, is what the appeals panel ruled — and whether that complicates the Supreme Court’s presumed decision whether to hear the case. In legal-ese, what the judges are saying is that while it’s DOJ policy that a sitting President cannot be indicted, that does not hold for a subpoena directed at the accounting firm.