John Roberts once lost a Supreme Court case to the late Rex Lee, who was the president of BYU and Roberts' friend and mentor. The vote was 9-0. Roberts called his client to advise of the drubbing. "9-0? 9-0?" the client said. "Why did we lose 9-0?" Said Roberts, "Well, because there are only nine justices."
I think we’re going to see the tax returns and a lot of bank records. This is going to be mandatory precedent that will end this debate.
Then again, US v. Nixon is such mandatory precedent. So is the Paula Jones case — hell, that case directly addresses the issue of acts by the President before he took office, including acts not relevant to issues in the civil case (i.e. Lewinksy). It wasn’t very hard to figure out that they have to produce the documents here.
I mean, when Clarence Thomas dunks on you, you gonna lose.