As you’ve probably heard, House Democrats investigating Donald Trump have requested a trove of documents from his professional and personal life, including financial information held by his longtime accountants and banking institution of choice, as well as his tax returns from the Treasury Department. Trump, of course, has stonewalled each and every request, suing Deutsche Bank and Mazars USA, and making sure Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to comply with a congressional subpoena. Obviously, the tactic here was to delay the process interminably and then hope a friendly face on the court would rule in his favor. But things have not exactly panned out as President Law and Order had clearly hoped! In fact, the exact opposite has happened not just once but a whopping four times in less than two days, like a bomb that won’t stop detonating no matter how many lame, not-very-clever nicknames you call it.

On Monday night, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Mazars must turn over its records related to Trump, unmoved by the argument from the president’s attorneys that the House Oversight Committee’s demands served no legitimate legislative function. Among other things, those documents will likely include the financial statements that included lies so obvious—like that the 58-story Trump Tower had 68 floors—that Trump’s accountants put a warning label on them.

The following evening, The Washington Post reported that a confidential I.R.S. legal memo states that, despite Mnuchin’s claims to the contrary, furnishing Trump’s returns to the House Ways and Means Committee “is mandatory,” and that the law “does not allow the Secretary to exercise discretion in disclosing the information provided the statutory conditions are met.” The memo was drafted last fall, and in a statement, a spokesperson for the I.R.S. said it did not represent the agency’s “official position.” Yet, curiously, the Internal Revenue Manual itself also states that the Ways and Means Chair does not need to give a reason for his request. Presumably, the department’s own manual does in fact reflect the I.R.S.’s official position.

Wednesday brought a one-two punch that we can only assume led to the sort of pitched screaming in the Oval Office that only dogs can hear. First, the New York State legislature approved a bill, passed by the Senate last week, that allows it to turn over Trump’s state tax returns to Congress if requested by the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, or the Joint Committee on Taxation. (The bill now goes to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s desk, where he is expected to sign it into law.) Given that it’s the president’s home state and the headquarters of the Trump Organization, The New York Times notes that a tax return from New York could “contain much of the same financial information as a federal return,” including corporation taxes, personal income taxes, and real-estate transfer taxes.

Then, shortly after the president of the United States threw an absolutely massive hissy fit and told Democrats he’ll kill any and all attempts at an infrastructure deal unless they drop all investigations, another judge brought down the hammer: