Supreme Court refuses House Democrats’ request to speed up Trump tax case litigation in lower courts

The Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an effort by House Democrats to speed up the process by which they can continue to fight for President Donald Trump’s financial records in lower courts.

The justices denied a request from attorneys for several Democratic-led congressional committees to finalize the court’s ruling from earlier in the month that blocked the enforcement of their subpoenas. The committees had issued them to obtain financial information from the president’s longtime accounting firm and banks.

The court rejected the Democrats’ request in an unsigned order, with only Justice Sonia Sotomayor noting that she would have granted it.

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