Trump wins motion to delay turning over tax docs after lawyer calls subpoena 'arbitrary fishing expedition'

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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday granted a motion by President Trump's lawyers to put off enforcement of a grand jury subpoena by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance for a trove of documents related to the president's businesses that the DA is seeking in a criminal probe.

 

The ruling comes just hours after lawyers for Trump and the DA clashed in a hearing over the motion. It represents a win for the president, whose documents will remain out of the hands of Vance and the grand jury at least for the time being. Both Trump's lawyer and the attorney from the Manhattan DA's office agreed to an expedited hearing schedule on the appeal, which is set for oral argument on Sept. 25.

Trump's attorney William Consovoy called the subpoena "an arbitrary fishing expedition ... issued in bad faith to harass the president" while Carey Dunn of the Manhattan DA's Office said there "couldn't be a more particularly meticulous review" of the president's objections to the subpoena than the 100-plus-page opinion issued by a district judge last month tossing Trump's suit.

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