CTH: Shortly after 6pm this evening Supreme Court Justice Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put a prior 2nd Circuit ruling on hold until next Friday, December 13, at 5 p.m.
President Trump went to the Supreme Court after the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One seeking President Trump’s tax records. In his request to the court [Read Here] Trump asked SCOTUS to block the subpoenas on the ground they go beyond the committees’ powers.
Justice Ginsburg’s order tonight gives the justices time to rule on Trump’s request for a longer stay of the lower court’s decision while he files a petition for review. Ginsburg ordered the House of Representatives to file a response to Trump’s request by 11 a.m. on Wednesday, December 11.
At their private SCOTUS conference next week, the justices are scheduled to consider President Trump’s original petition for review of a lower-court ruling that would require him to turn over tax records to the SDNY who are seeking them as part of a grand-jury investigation. The SCOTUS decision today, placing a hold on a similar House effort, essentially allows the court to receive arguments relating to the second request for tax records and contemplate the merit of both.
The first request to the Supreme Court resulted in them issuing a ruling maintaining the block against House Democrats receiving President Trump’s tax returns. The one paragraph order [pdf here] essentially maintained the stay and requested the Trump administration to file a formal request for review by the court. The Trump filing today is a response to that SCOTUS request: MORE
Helping President Trump won’t kill ya.
” …… until next Friday, December 13 ……. “.
An omen of doom.
@answerman cooper:
Yes, but pissing off Hillary will
The Progs will all be screaming Ginsburg is now senile since she issued this stay.
Hi ruth.There is a person that calls herself hillary to see you.
Ginsberg’s making one last stab at something noble – something decent – before she takes that short slide into Hell. Pretty sure she’s nihilistic and atheistic (never know about these things; presumption on my part), but she may have encountered some doubt during her current travails.
Redemption is a gift – but we must grasp it.
izlamo delenda est …
The semicretins are searching for a crime, His Tax records are beyond their comprehension level. Why don’t they investigate how Barry Soetoro is a multimillionaire?
Hillary’s gonna be frustrated when she finds out she can’t kill someone who’s already dead. And embalmed.
ok since we need to see trumps records let also look at hillary’s, biden’s, pelosi’s, schiff’s, nadler’s, schumer’s, mcconnell’s, obama’s, and all the deep state bureaucrats just to start with
Bill, maybe that’s why RBG seemingly ruled in Trump’s favor. Because it’s also in the swamp’s favor. The Estabs have seen every attack on Trump boomerang on them. Who among them really wants to destroy tax privacy for everybody?
“Somebody wake Ruth up. We need her signature.”
RGB not so popular today with the left is she now?
She’ll be going into hiding along with Johnathan Turley.
The woman could fall asleep eating babies on the court bench and they wouldn’t throw her out. They are terrified of what would replace her.
Just this morning I was thinking, how do we even know if she is still living?
RUUUTH…Oh RUUUTHIE…….
It’s TIIIME……
Perhaps, even in her old old age, RBG is concerned by how damaging playing along with this impeachment game would be to her legacy-
She’s arrogant and her historical significance has to mean something to her after all.
She doesn’t want to set a precedent, looking into Dems financial records.
Everybody knows the Dems are just fishing. The IRS already passed Trumps returns as honest with no illegality and one can bet they went over them with a fine tooth comb. The Dems want to get hold of them because they think they’ll be a huge fraud but I suspect they really want to leak them to the press which could massive damage to his company and give great advantage to his competitors. Cheap and dirty politics at it’s worst.