“PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT! … This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration! … Courts in the past have given ‘broad deference’. BUT NOT ME! … This is about PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT. We catch the other side SPYING on my campaign, the biggest political crime and scandal in U.S. history, and NOTHING HAPPENS. But despite this, I have done more than any President in history in first 3 1/2 years! … POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” Those are a few choice outtakes from the president’s reaction to a pair of Supreme Court rulings related to his tax returns and financial information. All that being said (whatever it means), the rulings weren’t all that bad for the president, at least not in terms of the November election. AP: Court rulings keep Trump’s financial records private for now. “By 7-2 votes, the justices upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for Trump’s tax returns, but kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking for more than a year.”

+ Former US attorney Joyce Alene: “Today’s SCOTUS rulings will have more impact on future presidencies than on Trump. They set rules of the road going forward. Trump can continue the delay game that has gotten him this far. The court takes a strong stand for the unremarkable proposition POTUS is not above the law.” Boston Globe: Legal experts say Supreme Court ruling on Trump financial records will have far-reaching effect.

+ The Atlantic: Trump Is Successfully Running Out the Clock. “These decisions affirm the rule of law, asserting that the president is, at the end of the day, like any other American citizen, and does not have the sweeping immunity he claims. But they are blows more against the executive in general than against Trump himself, at least for now.”