SCOTUS Rejects Trump Bid to Keep Tax Returns From House Democrats

In an order handed down on Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court of the United States said that it would not intervene to block the release of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee that, for another few weeks until the beginning of the 118th Congress in January, is controlled by Democrats. The order came after Trump had sought to have the high court intervene to prevent his tax returns from being obtained by House Democrats after he did not prevail before an appeals court that ruled the filings must be turned over to the Ways and Means Committee.

As SCOTUSblog noted, the short order does not include any reasoning nor does it note any dissents among the nine justices — including from the three Trump-appointed Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett — but that only means we don't know how the justices' vote on the matter fell.