Immediately after a Federal judge dismissed President Trump’s attempt to block a Grand Jury from reviewing his taxes, his lawyers appealed.
CNN:
A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s effort to prevent his tax returns from being turned over to a New York grand jury.
The ruling raises the likelihood that Trump’s tax returns will be provided in response to the subpoena, although any material obtained through a grand jury subpoena is covered by grand jury secrecy rules, meaning it would likely become public only if it were used as evidence at a trial.
Dismissing Trump’s “extraordinary” claim that any occupant of the White House enjoys “absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind,” US District Court Judge Victor Marrero said in a 75-page opinion that such a position “would constitute an overreach of executive power.”
An attorney for Trump filed an emergency notice of appeal to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals minutes after the district court judge filed his decision, and the appeals court immediately ordered a temporary stay of the subpoena.