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The Supreme Court will hear two cases with arguments from President Donald Trump’s lawyers to let him block access to financial documents and his tax returns, previously sought by congressional committees, and a New York prosecutor.
The first case that the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday are from House committees looking for various kinds of financial information that might aid them in their legislative and oversight responsibility, the New York Times reports.
"Exposing private details about individuals is not a power Congress holds," Trump’s lawyers write. "Yet that has been the goal here from the start."
In the second case, The Supreme Court justices will hear arguments that a local prosecutor in Manhattan had no power to subpoena Trump’s tax returns from his accountants.
Trump’s attorneys claim that, through virtue of the presidency’s requirements, he doesn’t have to abide by subpoenas or any criminal investigative process as long as he’s president.
Trump’s attorney’s will ask the Supreme Court to grant sweeping immunity from investigators in Congress and local prosecutors into his private life as long as he is president.
Prosecutors say that the demand of his tax returns are into Trump’s bankers and accountants, but not the president himself.
Trump’s attorneys argue that "there is no dispute that the subpoena itself targets the president — it names him personally and seeks his private records."
The public will be able to listen to hear the oral arguments through C-SPAN live at 10 AM ET.
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