The supplemental briefing re: whether Trump v. Mazars involves a political question outside the Supreme Court's jurisdiction is in.
Mr Trump, the federal government and the House committees all agree that the cases do NOT pose political question and ARE justiciable. 1/
Mr Trump, the federal government and the House committees all agree that the cases do NOT pose political question and ARE justiciable. 1/
Here's the closing line from Consovoy, Trump's lawyer 
The crux of the argument in the DOJ's letter brief
And a very similar take from the House
You can find all the briefs at the bottom of this page supremecourt.gov/docket/docketf…
The reasoning in these briefs matches what I argued in a couple of tweets the other day
The upshot? There is no dispute. The Supreme Court has no procedural off-ramp from resolving the cases involving access to the president's taxes and financial records.
It's remarkable that SCOTUS even asked the parties to brief this question. One wonders which justices were interested in the matter, and whether it will come up in the oral argument on Tuesday. END
In the closing minutes of our webinar yesterday, @AHoweBlogger and I discussed the request for more briefing on the political question doctrine and suggested it would be a bust. That appears to have been the right call.
