It was just a matter of time.

Shortly after President Trump was denied his latest appeal to keep his tax returns private - as if anyone besides a few rabid TDSers still cares about those after the whole thing was leaked to the NYT - on Tuesday the president asked the Supreme Court, which will soon have one more conservative Justice on deck, to block lower court decisions that would give the Manhattan District Attorney’s office access to years of his income tax returns.

Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court asking the court to issue a stay on a grand jury subpoena demanding those tax returns and other financial records from his accountants. The request is pending the filing of his planned request that the high court hear his appeal of the lower court rulings that allowed that subpoena.

And, as CNBC reports, if the Supreme Court agrees to hear his appeal, it will be the second time the court has taken the case. In their filing, Trump’s lawyers said “there is a reasonable probabilty that” the Supreme Court will take the appeal.

Last summer, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s argument that his financial records from the Mazars USA firm should be protected from the subpoena because of his status as president. But the Supreme Court said Trump could make new arguments against the subpoeana with a federal district court in Manhattan, when a judge in that court ruled against the president after Trump’s lawyers argued that the subpoena was overbroad and issued in bad faith. A federal appeals court then upheld that ruling.

More importantly, with RBG now gone and ACB about to be the latest addition, it will be a true test of just how "conservative" the new appointment will push the court.

As a reminder, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is seeking the tax returns and other records as part of an ongoing criminal investigation of the president’s company, the Trump Organization. Vance is known to be eyeing how hush money payments to women who say they had sex with Trump were accounted for by the company, and according to court filings also could be investigating possible tax crimes, as well as bank and insurance fraud.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-brings-tax-return-case-supreme-court

Trump: "I Was Right About Damaging Lockdowns"

“The World Health Organisation came out a little while ago and admitted that Donald Trump was right. The lockdowns are doing tremendous damage to these Democrat-run states where they are in lockdown,” Trump told the huge crowd in Florida Monday night.

“They corrected themselves today and said I was right,” the President reiterated:

Trump was referring to WHO envoy Dr. David Nabarro telling The Spectator that “We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method.”

The World Health Organization just admitted that I was right. Lockdowns are killing countries all over the world. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. Open up your states, Democrat governors. Open up New York. A long battle, but they finally did the right thing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020

Nabarro added that “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.”

WATCH: Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's Special Envoy on Covid-19, tells Andrew Neil: 'We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method'. Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/XLdaedsKVS #SpectatorTV @afneil | @davidnabarro pic.twitter.com/1M4xf3VnXQ

— The Spectator (@spectator) October 9, 2020

During the rally, Trump further attacked the WHO, noting that it is dominated by China, despite that country paying vastly less in funding to the global health body than the US does.

“I took us out of the WHO because they were wrong about everything. Although, they corrected themselves–they say I was right about the lockdowns. (I asked) Why are we paying $500 million a year and China which has 1.4 billion people is paying $39 million per year — they couldn’t explain so I took us out,” Trump urged.

“China dominates them and I said it doesn’t work that way anymore. They will take us back in so fast with less money,” the President added.

The President also painted a grim picture of what will happen if Joe Biden is elected.

“Biden would terminate our recovery, delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic and annihilate Florida’s economy with a draconian, unscientific lockdown — that’s what he wants to do, lock it down, lock it down everybody,” Trump told the crowd.

“And you know what? If you don’t feel good about going out, stay, relax, stay. You know the risk groups, you know the older people,” the President added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-i-was-right-about-damaging-lockdowns