The US Supreme Court is preparing to consider the legitimacy of President Donald Trump‘s refusal to submit his tax data to Congress and the judiciary, in a case that may help limit the limits of his presidential immunity.
During the first series in the framework of the case that will be held from next Tuesday, the nine members of the Supreme Court will put their questions over the phone to the lawyers of the parties concerned.
Trump, the former real estate tycoon who made his fortune one of the foundations of his campaign, is the second American president after Richard Nixon to refuse to reveal his tax situation, which sparked controversy in American society, especially among the Democratic Party, and many speculation about the reason for his rejection.
“There is something in these documents that the president does not want to see,” commented Professor political science and American writer Stephen Mazi on Twitter.
Several committees have directed requests to the accounting office “Mazars” and “Deutsche Bank” and “Capital One” banks to obtain Trump financial documents dating back to the period between 2011 and 2018.
New York Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance also made a similar request to the Mazars office as part of an investigation into paying porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence on a hypothetical relationship with Trump.
Trump immediately turned to the court to prevent the delivery of these documents, stressing that those requests were “illegal” and considered himself a victim of a “campaign of persecution” against him.
Source: AFP
