WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court, which often backed Donald Trump as president, is giving him little deference now that he’s not.
The court’s terse two-sentence order Tuesday, letting a House committee get six years of Trump’s tax returns, marked the fourth time the justices have rejected him over documents since he left office. The cases have produced only a single public dissenting vote from a court that has a 6-3 conservative majority and three Trump appointees.
The latest order gave Democrats a victory after a years-long battle, as the court rejected Trump’s bid to block the Internal Revenue Service from turning over the documents to the House Ways and Means Committee. The IRS is now free to provide the returns and could do so imminently. Democrats haven’t said whether they will make them public.
