The United States Supreme Court - without dissent - has stayed the order sought by the House Oversight Committee to compel Trump's accountants to turn over his tax and other financial records. Trump must file a petition for certification by noon December 5. The stay remains in place until the high court decides how to dispose of the House subpoena.
Also pending is Trump's request to reverse the Second Circuit decision upholding the subpoena for the same records by Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance, Jr. In that case the Department of Justice has filed a friend of the court brief.
The Solicitor General - citing fears of a President stung by a barrage of arrows flung by malicious local District Attorneys - urges the Court to compel a "heightened" showing by Vance who is using a grand jury to investigate suspected crimes by Trump and his associates in New York.
The issues are assayed today in a typically lucid manner by Texas law professor Steve Vladeck at SCOTUSblog
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