DON MUST COUGH UP TAX INFO TO N.Y. PROBERS

Supreme Court says, no, you are not above the law

The hunt for President Trump’s taxes is over — kind of.

The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New York prosecutors to get their hands on Trump’s tax returns and other financial records, declaring that the president cannot put himself “above the law” and is, like any other citizen, required to cooperate in a criminal investigation.

However, in a separate ruling, the high court rejected — at least for now — a congressional demand for the same set of documents, meaning Trump’s long-sought, potentially incriminating tax records will all but certainly not be released publicly before November’s election, as hoped by Democrats.

The first decision, by a 7-2 vote, gave a green light for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr., to subpoena Mazars USA, an accounting firm long used by Trump, for a cache of his financial and banking records, including eight of his most recent personal and corporate tax returns.

Surprisingly, both of Trump’s Supreme Court appointments, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the bench’s four liberal-leaning members in voting against Trump’s bid to block Mazars from giving Vance the records.

In an opinion penned by Roberts, the court said Trump could still object to the scope of Vance’s subpoena in lower court proceedings, a process that could likely last months.

However, the court made clear that it’s a matter of when — not if — Mazars will hand over the goods, as the ruling strikes down Trump’s main defense that he enjoys “absolute immunity” from criminal inquiries while in office.

“No citizen, not even the president, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding,” Roberts wrote in the opinion, which marks the most consequential decision on the limits of executive power since the Supreme Court ordered President Richard Nixon to give Congress tapes of his Oval Office conversations in 1974.

Since Vance is beholden to strict grand jury secrecy, Trump’s records will be kept under tight wraps, likely until long after November’s election, as his office scours the documents as part of an investigation into the president’s scramble to pay off two of his alleged paramours before the 2016 election.

In the second case, the court said in a unanimous ruling that three Democrat-led House committees could not immediately move ahead to subpoena Mazars and Deutsche Bank for the same records because of “weighty concerns regarding the separation of powers.”

Instead, the justices, in another opinion written by Roberts, said it would punt the case back to a lower court to hash out the complex constitutional issues.

That means the congressional case will be put on ice for the foreseeable future, marking a partial victory for Trump, who’s the only president in modern memory to refuse to release his tax returns.

Still, Trump — who has waged an intense legal battle to keep his taxes secret amid rumors that they contain incriminating information — appeared deeply unnerved by the rulings, especially Vance’s victory.

“This is all a political prosecution. I won the Mueller Witch Hunt, and others, and now I have to keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York. Not fair to this Presidency or Administration!” the president wrote as part of a string of frantic tweets. “Courts in the past have given ‘broad deference.’ BUT NOT ME!” Vance begged to differ.

“This is a tremendous victory for