The Supreme Court temporarily stopped a lower court order requiring President Donald Trump to turn over his tax returns to House Democrats amid their impeachment inquiry.
The lower court ordered Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, to turn over his financial records.
The Supreme Court now will decide whether to take up Trump’s appeal.
The president has requested that the Supreme Court protect his financial records from the House and the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
Trump’s lawyers have argued that the House Oversight Committee has no legitimate reason to seek the documents.
“For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has subpoenaed the personal records of a sitting president from before he was in office,” Jay Sekulow, one of the president’s personal attorneys, previously said in a statement. “And, for the first time in our nation’s history, a court upheld a congressional subpoena to the president for his personal papers. Those decisions are wrong and should be reversed.”
Trump’s attorneys submitted a petition last week to the court to overturn a ruling in a New York court requiring his accountants to turn over tax returns to the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The justices haven’t said whether they would consider the appeal.
“We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will grant review in this significant constitutional case and reverse the dangerous and damaging decision of the appeals court.”
Trump has repeatedly blasted efforts by Democrats to obtain his taxes, saying it’s unprecedented.