Supreme Court orders more arguments in case over Trump's financial records

The Hill ^ | 04 27 2020 | Harper Neidig

[yesthatjallen]

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Trump administration and the House to further brief justices on whether the case over the president's financial records can be decided by the courts.

The move comes two weeks before the justices will hear oral arguments over a set of subpoenas that House Democrats have issued to President Trump's banks and accountants. The request indicates that at least some of the justices may believe that the judiciary is not fit to resolve the dispute.

"The parties and the Solicitor General are directed to file supplemental letter briefs addressing whether the political question doctrine or related justiciability principles bear on the Court’s adjudication of these cases," the Supreme Court said in its order Monday morning.

The political question doctrine holds that the courts can only decide questions of law, not of politics, so general disputes between government branches are not fit for the judiciary.

Congress subpoenaed Deutsche Bank, the accounting firm Mazars and Capital One last year, prompting the president, in his personal capacity, to file a lawsuit to block them from complying.

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[kiryandil]

Looks like two three-judge panels from the Second Circuit amd a three-judge panel from the DC Circuit.

[norwaypinesavage]

I wonder how the liberal Supreme Court justices would rule if a Republican led house were to subpoena a President Biden’s previous years medical records?