The tax return verdict

Supreme Court showdown tomorrow.    Trump has lost every legal battle thus far to provide his tax returns to Congress.    But what we've learned is a president  can tie up the courts for almost his entire term before having to comply with constitutional checks and balances.   And maybe not even then.   We'll see what verdict comes out of the Kavanaugh court  in the coming days.  

Seeing Trump's international financial relationships and conflicts of interest is the purpose of the audit.  But the bigger issue is whether or not our checks and balances system has any teeth to in today's environment.

(History lesson - Nixon took a similar fight to the courts to not comply with the COngressional subponea demanding he hand over the Watergate tapes.  He lost by unanimous decision.    But that was then.     What do you suppose the over/under is Clarence Thomas will vote  to ignore the Constituion?) 

Here's a Supreme Court precedent that's exactly on point:

Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), established that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, against him or her, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office.

And Trump's case is even weaker because while Jones was suing the President of the United States, Trump isn't even a party to the subpoena he wants quashed. He's just an interested third party.

The Supreme Court is now nothing but a Trump rubber stamp and will vote 5-4 that Emperor Trump is above the law.

This is the outcome that Moscow Mitch envisioned back in 2016 when he blocked the Garland nomination.

The Supreme Court is now nothing but an appendage of the Republican Party.