SCOTUS temporarily blocks release of President Trump's financial information via court order

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The Blaze

The judicial fight over legal demands to release President Donald Trump's financial records took another step forward Monday when the Supreme Court of the United States temporarily stopped President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm from having to turn over information to congressional investigators.

The order, which was signed by Chief Justice John Roberts, gives the House of Representatives until Thursday to respond in the matter. The decision comes after President Trump's lawyers asked the court to stop the records from being released under subpoena and after the House of Representatives' general counsel told the high court in a letter that the lawmakers would agree to "a short ten-day administrative stay" beginning on Wednesday in order to allow both sides of the case to file necessary legal paperwork.

The case has to do with a subpoena that the House Oversight Committee sent to the president's longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, back in April for records related its investigation into Trump's business dealings from both before and after he took office. While the committee said it needed the documents for an evaluation of current government ethics laws, the president's team told the court that the investigation "serves no legitimate legislative purpose."

In October, a majority decision of a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold the subpoena.

The lone dissenter in the three-judge decision was Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee confirmed to the bench earlier this year, who said the court's opinion blurred the "consistent line" between Congress' legislative powers and its impeachment powers.

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