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Courts in the past have given “broad deference”. BUT NOT ME!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2020

But the president's attorneys said they were \"pleased.\"

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\"The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked both Congress and New York prosecutors from obtaining the President’s tax records. We will now proceed to raise additional Constitutional and legal issues in the lower courts,\" Counsel to the President Jay Sekulow said in a statement on the New York case and on a second case involving four congressional subpoenas, also sent back to a lower court.

Three Democratic-led House committees are seeking a sweeping array of Trump personal and business records predating his time in the White House, including bank statements, engagement letters, personal checks, loan applications and tax returns -- information the lawmakers have called critical to drafting of new federal ethics and anti-corruption laws.

\"Both of these cases involve short-term political wins for the president,\" said Shaw. \"But they actually also both involve long-term wins for state authorities and congressional committees that try to hold the president accountable.\"

Later Thursday, Trump, speaking at a White House event, said he is partly satisfied with the rulings.

\"The court rulings were basically starting all over again, sending everything back down to the lower courts and to start all over again, and so, from a certain point, I’m satisfied,\" Trump said during a roundtable with Hispanic leaders. \"From another point, I’m not satisfied because frankly, this is a political witch hunt.\"

When Trump's personal accounting firm and three financial institutions used by him and his business were initially subpoenaed for the information, in both cases, Trump intervened to block the third parties from complying. He lost at every level in lower federal courts.

Trump is the only modern American president to have not publicly released tax returns or divest from major business interests while in office.

“The Supreme Court today confirmed that the president is not above the law. The court ruled that President Trump must follow the law, like the rest of us. And that includes responding to subpoenas for his tax records,\" said ACLU national legal director David Cole.

Finkelstein said the decision did not mean the public would immediately get to see the president's tax returns because grand jury proceedings are kept secret.

\"It is possible that they would come out as part of trial if the president were, in fact, tried for crimes for which his financial records were available,\" Finkelstein told ABC News Live.

\"The Court has now said, guess what, it is constitutionally permissible to investigate a sitting president,\" said Finkelstein. \"And that has the backward implications that it is also potentially constitutionally permissible to indict a sitting president.\"

ABC News' Elizabeth Thomas contributed to this report.

This report was featured in the Friday, July 10, 2020, episode of “Start Here,” ABC News’ daily news podcast.

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