(Trump has promised many times to make his tax records public. I think this shows he never planned to do so, and it was just yet another lie.)

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a House committee from obtaining former President Trump's tax returns.

The big picture: Roberts' stay comes after Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the case to block the release of his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.

The temporary stay gives the court more time to consider Trump's emergency appeal.

Driving the news: "It is ordered that the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ... is hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court," Roberts wrote.