Supreme Court blocks House committee from immediately reviewing Trump's financial records
Source: Washington Post
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a House committee from immediately reviewing President Trump’s financial records, after the president’s lawyers agreed to an expedited review of a lower court ruling granting access. The court’s action signals that, even as Congress considers impeaching Trump, the court will undertake a more complete consideration of the legal powers of Congress and state prosecutors to investigate the president while he is in office.
The court instructed Trump’s lawyers to file a petition by Dec. 5 stating why it should accept the case for full briefing and oral argument. If the petition is eventually denied, the lower court ruling will go into effect. If accepted, the case likely will be heard this term, with a decision before the court adjourns at the end of June. Lower courts have also sided with a New York district attorney seeking access to much of the same financial information for a grand jury investigation. The New York decision already was on hold, and did not require immediate Supreme Court action.
“This is a significant separation-of-powers clash between the president and Congress,” Trump’s personal lawyer William S. Consovoy said in a filing with the court in the case involving the House Oversight and Reform Committee. He said Trump is “prepared to proceed on any schedule that the court deems appropriate.”
The House on Thursday told the Supreme Court that review was not necessary. It said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision saying the House committee was entitled to the information is straightforward and based upon Supreme Court precedent. “The committee is investigating whether senior government officials, including the president, are acting in the country’s best interest and not in their own financial interest, whether federal agencies are operating free from financial conflicts and with accurate information, and whether any legislative reforms are needed to ensure that these fundamental principles are respected,” House General Counsel Douglas N. Letter told the justices in a filing Thursday.
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By Washington Post Staff
November 25, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. EST
President Trump’s personal attorneys had requested a stay while the justices consider whether the House Oversight Committee can see his financial records. An appeals court had ruled that the committee was within its rights to issue a subpoena for the documents from Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/11/25/supreme-court-puts-a-temporary-hold-on-allowing-house-committee-to-access-trumps-tax-records/
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I was trying to find your earlier thread on this case to stick an update in. 
That was the problem.
Cool and thank you!
