The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily put the brakes on the partisan attempt by House Democrats to pry into classified witness material obtained by former special counsel Robert Mueller and contained in his lengthy report following his witch hunt ‘Russian collusion’ probe.

On Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts placed a temporary hold on the disclosure of grand jury material that was redacted from the report.

The block will remain while the larger court considers its next action.

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The decision by Roberts comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in March the materials must be released to the House Judiciary Committee in compliance with a congressional subpoena. That court said that the materials must be handed over to the House panel by May 11 barring any action from the Supreme Court.

On Thursday, the Justice Department, in a 37-page filing, asked the high court to stay the lower court’s ruling. Solicitor-General Noel Francisco said the administration would need more time to file an appeal of the lower court’s ruling.

“The government will suffer irreparable harm absent a stay," he wrote on the filing. "Once the government discloses the secret grand-jury records, their secrecy will irrevocably be lost.

“That is particularly so when, as here, they are disclosed to a congressional committee and its staff,” he added.

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Secrecy is vital to grand jury investigations and proceedings because public disclosure could compromise the private testimony of witnesses. And in this case, Democrats are most likely interested seeing how much of that testimony can be taken out of context with selective ‘leaks’ to a waiting mainstream media that remains all-in to ‘get’ President Donald Trump.

It’s not clear how the high court will eventually rule, but earlier this year, the Justice Department argued that the Judiciary Committee would need to obtain a court order to see the secret materials and even then, absent a judicial proceeding, members could only see a redacted version of Mueller’s report.

The appeals court disagreed, however, putting at risk unknown numbers of Mueller witnesses, none of whom, obviously, could provide conclusive proof of ‘Russian collusion’ since his report exonerated the president and his campaign of that allegation.