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After Trump’s Supreme Court Loss, D. A. Moves Closer to Getting Tax Records

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A lower-court judge swiftly scheduled a hearing for next week on the Manhattan prosecutor’s demand to see President Trump’s financial records.
A day after winning a Supreme Court victory over President Trump, the Manhattan district attorney moved one step closer to obtaining some of the president’s financial records when a lower-court judge acted quickly to hear any final arguments from the president’s lawyers.
The federal judge in Manhattan who first presided over the dispute issued an order on Friday asking the lawyers and the district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., to inform him as to whether any further action was needed in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The judge, Victor Marrero, has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, when the president’s lawyers are expected to continue to fight against turning over the records to Mr. Vance.
The order came sooner than expected and seemed to signal that the judge would move swiftly to try to resolve the matter. For nearly a year, Mr. Vance, a Democrat, has been locked in a legal battle with the president over access to the records.
Last August, Mr. Vance’s office subpoenaed Mr. Trump’s accounting firm for tax records in connection with an investigation into hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, an allegation he has denied. The office asked for returns and other financial records dating to 2011.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump sued to block the grand jury subpoena, saying that the president was immune from state criminal inquiries while in office, an argument that had never been tested in court. They said local investigations could distract the president from his duties and that Mr. Vance was motivated by political considerations.
The case made its way to the Supreme Court, and on Thursday, the court ruled,7 to 2, against the president. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that “no citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding.

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