SCOTUSblog by Amy Howe 12/16/2019
On Friday afternoon, the court added five cases to its merits docket, for a total of four hours of oral argument, including three cases stemming from efforts by congressional committees and a New York grand jury to subpoena President Donald Trump’s financial records from the president’s accountants and lenders. Amy Howe covers the order list for this blog, in a post that first appeared at Howe on the Court. At Fox News, Bill Mears and Shannon Bream report that “[a]t issue is the extent a sitting president can be subject to congressional oversight — under ‘valid legislative purposes’ — of his private business dealings before he took office[; t]he high court will also look at the extent a sitting president can be subject to state and local grand jury investigations and prosecutions.†Nina Totenberg reports for NPR that the court “has scheduled all three cases together for an hour of argument in March.†For The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall report that “[a] court ruling will likely come by late June, amid the president’s re-election campaign.†At The Economist, Steven Mazie explains that “it is far from obvious how the justices will rule in these disputes.â€
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