Washington — US supreme court justices pressed a lawyer for US President Donald Trump to justify his bid to block Democrat-led congressional committees from getting access to his financial records in a major showdown over presidential powers, on Tuesday.

The nine justices kicked off a scheduled one-hour argument over attempts by House of Representatives committees to obtain the records in a pair of cases that test the authority of Congress to conduct oversight of the president...

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