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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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.