Supreme Court blocks Trump financial records from immediate release, delivering setback to House Democrats
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a lower court's decision that let House Democrats immediately review President Trump's financial records.
After agreeing to an expedited review of the lower court's ruling, Trump's lawyers were told they have until Dec. 5 to file a formal petition explaining why the court should accept its case for full briefing and oral argument, The Washington Post reports. If the petition is rejected, the lower court's ruling will go into effect, but if it is accepted, the case will likely be heard in the spring and decided before the Supreme Court adjourns in June.
The House Oversight Committee sent a subpoena to Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, in mid-April, seeking his financial records. Trump immediately sued in an attempt to block the subpoena, and after a federal judge ruled against him in May, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in October that presidents "enjoy no blanket immunity from congressional subpoenas."
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