Andrew McCarthy: Supreme Courts Trump subpoena rulings are defeat for presidency but political win f
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Date: 2020-07-10

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TheSupreme Courts decisions Thursday on two separate cases involving subpoenas for the presidents personal financial information are legal defeats for the presidency.  Politically, they are a win for Donald Trump. Both opinions were authored by Chief Justice John Roberts and were ostensibly resounding 72 defeats for the presidents position.  But theres less here than meets the eye. The State Grand Jury SubpoenaOne case involves a subpoena issued by a New York state grand jury conducting a criminal investigation led by the office of Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan district attorney. JOHN YOO: SUPREME COURT SMACKS TRUMP AND DELIVERS BODY BLOW TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCYThat investigation is believed to be focused, at least in part, on the payment of hush money to women who claim to have had liaisons with Donald Trump about a decade before he became president, including how the reimbursement for those payments was allegedly booked by the Trump real-estate organization. The subpoena, issued to Trumps longtime accounting firm, Mazars, is believed to be sweeping, seeking voluminous financial information (including tax-return information), over a number of years. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR OPINION NEWSLETTERThe Courts rulingagainst the president is emphatic.  It was expected that the president would lose.  This seemed obvious during the oral argument, when the Court focused intently on the fact that, while the president was making a broad immunity claim, he was not arguing that he had immunity frombeing investigated; just that he had immunity fromcomplying with subpoenas indeed, subpoenas addressed to a third-party agent of his, not to the president himself. This was an untenable position.  Logically, it was foreclosed byClinton v.  Jones, in which the Court permitted Paula Joness civil sexual-harassment suit to proceed against President Clinton, including discovery. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPMoreover,