President Trump still hasn't given up his fight to hide his taxes.
The Supreme Court handed Trump a partial victory last week in ruling he is not immune from subpoenas from prosecutors. Still, it left Trump with other options for fighting a subpoena from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, which his lawyers said Wednesday they plan to take.
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Vance subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Vance could see those records, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying Trump is "neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need."
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