Trump Taxes: Judges Seem Skeptical of Bid to Block Subpoena for Returns.
'President Trump is appealing a ruling ordering him to abide by a subpoena from state prosecutors to turn over eight years of tax returns.
A federal appeals panel on Wednesday expressed skepticism that President Trump had a right to block state prosecutors in Manhattan from enforcing a subpoena that sought his personal and corporate tax returns for the last eight years.
The judges on a three-member panel in Manhattan peppered Mr. Trump’s lawyer with questions about why they should overturn a ruling this month by a lower court judge who rejected the president’s argument that he was immune from criminal investigation. That claim has not previously been tested in the courts.
Robert A. Katzmann, the appeals court’s chief judge, seemed to doubt Mr. Trump’s lawyer’s stance that the president could not be investigated while he was in office.
“Why can’t we think about this case in a narrow sense?” Judge Katzmann asked.
He later added: “We don’t have to confront the question of whether the president is immune from indictment and prosecution while in office.”
He suggested that the judges need only determine that a president could be investigated.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/nyregion/trump-taxes-vance.html