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Trump Subpoena Cases – A Recap

May 19, 2020

Over the last two weeks, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments remotely, by teleconference, allowing the public to listen in in real time for the first time in history. The National Constitution Center recapped those arguments live on C-SPAN with advocates on either side of each case. This episode features the recap of Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Vance — disputes over whether President Trump must release his tax returns and other financial records to prosecutors and House committees. NCC President Jeffrey Rosen was joined by law professors Gillian Metzger and Andy Grewal to recap the arguments and dive into the case’s potential implications for presidential powers.  

Check out more Supreme Court argument recaps on our companion podcast We the People or on our YouTube channel

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Gillian Metzger is Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School. A leading administrative and constitutional law scholar, she writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, and federal courts, with an emphasis on federalism and privatization. 

Andy Grewal is Professor and Joseph F. Rosenfield Fellow in Law at Iowa Law School. Prior to joining the Iowa faculty, Professor Grewal taught at Arizona State University. His scholarly interests and teaching specialties are tax law, administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law. 

Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.

This episode was engineered by Greg Scheckler with help from Jackie McDermott and produced by Jackie McDermott and Tanaya Tauber.

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