AD“It is the first time that Congress has subpoenaed personal records of a sitting president. And, it is the first time a court has upheld any congressional subpoena for any sitting president’s records of any kind,” he wrote in the brief. ADThe Supreme Court is scheduled to consider a related case at its private conference Dec. 13. It involves a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that granted Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. similar access to Trump’s financial records, which are held by his longtime accounting firm Mazars USA. The most consequential of those reviews involved Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, and in both the Supreme Court handed them unanimous losses.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2019 20:03 UTC