The Supreme Court no longer will decide a case about whether lawmakers can turn to the courts when the federal government denies requests for documents, in a dispute tied to Donald Trump’s lease of the Old Post Office Building in Washington from the federal government.
The justices, who previously agreed to decide the case, instead dismissed it Monday in a brief order. The move came after Democratic members of Congress dropped their lawsuit and asked the high court to no longer decide the issue.
The case would have tested a law that allows seven members of what was then called the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to request documents from the federal government, which is separate from the typical authority of the panel’s majority to do so.
