We're reminded today of upcoming oral arguments before the (Republican) Supreme Court in two cases involving the subpoenaing of his tax and business financing documents that inept crime family boss Donald "Donny Small Hands" Trump doesn't want anyone to see. Really doesn't want anyone to see. (This would be the definition of "consciousness of guilt.") His attorneys and the untrustworthy William "Low" Bar- led "Justice" Department have come up with specious arguments that are tailored to one person, who is apparently above the law and beyond all accountability:
Three different committees of Congress, as well as New York State prosecutors, have issued subpoenas to President Donald Trump’s accountants and bankers for his tax and business records. Trump has sued to stop the accountants and bankers from complying. He has lost twice at the district-court level and twice at the appeals-court level. Now he is looking to the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to rescue him.
On March 31, the court will hear oral arguments in the cases of Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Deutsche Bank. The decision will be rendered sometime between then and the court’s summer break. [snip]
Plainly, there is something in those documents that Trump dreads letting the world see. We now seem on track to one of three possible outcomes of this dispute.
The first is that precedent and law prevail. Trump loses his lawsuit against his accountants and bankers, and the subpoenaed documents are surrendered to Congress.
The second is that the political imperative to save Trump that swayed Rao will sway the conservative justices on the Supreme Court—and that Trump’s secrets will be protected by a 5–4 decision.
The third is that Trump loses—but continues to devise new delays to thwart the subpoenas and defy not only Congress but also the courts.
Every one of these possible outcomes leads to explosive controversy in the summer before the 2020 election.The tax and business documents held by his accounting firm (Mazars) and the bank records of Putin- oligarch- friendly Deutsche Bank are cans of worms that doubtless confirm what most sentient observers have noted about Trump's long, corrupt career and his affinity for and protection of (benefactor) Putin. Should the (Republican) Supreme Court decide, once again, to protect Trump from investigation by Congress and other watchdogs, it will be the final signal that we're no longer a country of laws and custom, and that truly will be sowing the wind for the whirlwind to follow.
