Trump’s Tax Returns

This is probably the best outcome that could have been hoped for at this stage:

The Supreme Court just handed Trump a significant — but potentially very temporary — victory in his legal battle with House Democrats.

In October, a federal appeals court held in Trump v. Mazars that President Trump’s accounting firm must turn over many of Trump’s financial records — including, most likely, his tax returns — to the House Oversight Committee. Trump asked the Supreme Court to stay that decision, and the justices granted that stay on Monday.

Yet, while the Court stayed the lower court’s decision, it also ordered the case to move forward at an unusually fast pace. Trump’s lawyers must file a petition formally asking the Court to hear the case by noon on December 5.

The Court is, at least, not going to bury this preemptively — if it hears this, which it presumably will, it will be this term. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the Court will resolve the issue — as Denverite observed in comments, I can definitely imagine Roberts and/or Alito cooking up a “Congress can theoretically subpoena tax records but is can’t do it in this precise way but try again and check back with us in March 2021” solid for Trump. But there’s at least a reasonable chance that the Roberts Court will either let the House see the returns or reveal themselves to be the fully bought lackeys of the Trump administration during an election campaign.