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NEW: Trump's lawyers and the House Oversight Committee have asked the DC Circuit to expedite his appeal re: the subpoena to his accounting firm. If the court agrees, the House agreed to suspend the deadline for the company to produce documents assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6024… 
This is significant — if the court agrees to this schedule, and the House suspends the deadline for Mazars to produce docs, this avoids a fight over an emergency motion to stay the lower court order (the district judge denied a stay request, see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)
A fight over an emergency stay request would delay getting to a final ruling on whether the House subpoena is lawful — if Trump lost on an emergency motion in the DC Circuit, for instance, he could petition SCOTUS to get involved. So this would move things along more quickly.
Here's House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings on agreeing to suspend the subpoena deadline if the DC Circuit agrees to expedite the case: "I hope the Court approves our request so we can move forward and effectively discharge our responsibilities under the Constitution."
