Vance’s office, which declined to comment Thursday, agreed to hold off on enforcing the subpoena if Trump’s lawyers quickly asked the Supreme Court to hear the case this term.
“For the first time in our nation’s history, a state or local prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation of the President of the United States and subjected him to coercive criminal process,” wrote Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s lawyers.
He added: “Politically motivated subpoenas like this one are a perfect illustration of why a sitting president should be categorically immune from state criminal process.”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in media interviews before the 2016 election criticized Trump’s decision not to release his tax information, as other presidential nominees had done.
“How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns?” Ginsburg said in an interview with CNN. “The press seems to be very gentle with him on that.” After criticism, Ginsburg said she should not have commented on the candidate.
Stay tuned to this developing story.
