They're going to pull a Scalia

[Goodheart]

5-4 to keep them sealed.

"Releasing trump's tax returns would be unfair to his presidency, but this ruling applies to this one case only and is not to be used as a precedent."

[octoberlib]

1. I don't know. George Conway doesn't seem to think so.

Link to tweet

The Supreme Court granted President Clinton’s petition for certiorari to hear the Paula Jones case, then ruled against him 9-0. Similarly, Trump will likely lose the Manhattan DA case by a lopsided vote given what we heard today. He’ll probably lose the ...

... House subpoena case today, although he may get a couple of more votes in that one.

Link to tweet

Carey Dunne, NYDA’s General Counsel, did a spectacular job on the grand jury case in SCOTUS today. He was helpful to every justice, precise, candid, accurate, & provided the strongest possible defensible arguments for NY against Trump. I’d give him an A or A+, very rare for me.

[elleng]

3. Thanks

[stillcool]

2. I had the same thought...

one time only, get out of jail card.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Whatever happens, the records will not be released before the election.

[mitch96]

5. " records will not be released before the election."

And after the swearing in of the new prez in 253 days the State of NY will nail his ass to the wall... but who is counting...
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[greenjar_01]

6. Agreed

The conservative court members are a joke, an absolute joke. They are not going to make a fair ruling.

[Celerity]

7. 'applies to this one case only and is not to be used as a precedent'

it will stand until they can fuck over a Dem POTUS, especially if Trump is elected and takes the court to 7-2 or even 8-1 (If Sotomayor's bad chronic diabete does her in) hard RW (and for the RW cherry on the cake, replace an ageing Thomas with a 40-something RWNJ)