America's attorney is full-on Trump's attorney now

The Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Friday urging the Supreme Court to hear President Trump’s appeal seeking to keep his financial records private. Mr. Trump is trying to block a subpoena from Manhattan prosecutors that would require his accounting firm to turn over eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns.

The brief did not adopt the broad position taken by Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers in a petition filed last week — that he is immune from criminal investigation while he remains in office. Rather, the department’s brief said that courts should require prosecutors to meet a more demanding standard before they are allowed to obtain the information.

The brief took pains to say that there was nothing unusual about the department’s participation in the case, noting that it had previously filed friend-of-the-court briefs in cases in which Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton had claimed immunity in civil suits.

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The two other presidents in our time who were subject to impeachment inquiries and/or trials.

“This court — not a lower federal court — should decide,” the Justice Department said, “whether the type of intrusion on the presidency at issue in this case is permissible.”

Because, after all, "this" court - the Supreme Court - is the one they've packed for just such moments.

The Supreme Court is expected to announce in the coming weeks whether it will hear the case from Manhattan as well as a second one arising from a subpoena from a House committee.