Re: Supreme Court Allows House Democrats to Obtain Trump's Tax Returns

On 11/22/22 2:59 PM, John Dillinger wrote:
> 
>   <http://nytimes.com>
> Supreme Court Allows House Democrats to Obtain Trump's Tax Returns
> Charlie Savage
> 
> In a terse order, the Supreme Court rejected the former president's
> request that it block the Treasury Department from turning over the
> files.
> 
> Nov. 22, 2022, 2:46 p.m. ET
> 
> WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for a House
> committee to receive former President Donald J. Trump's tax returns,
> refusing his request to block their release in the waning weeks of
> Democratic control of the chamber.
> 
> The court's order, which was unsigned and did not note any dissents,
> is the most recent instance in which it has sided against Mr. Trump,
> who appointed three justices to the bench. The decision means that the
> Treasury Department is likely to soon turn over Mr. Trump's financial
> documents to the House, which has been seeking them since 2019.
> 
> Mr. Trump's legal team had urged the justices to extend a lower
> court's stay as it pursued an appeal before the Supreme Court, saying
> the House's request raised issues that were too important to let the
> Treasury Department turn over his files before they were resolved.
> 
> But Douglas N. Letter, the chief lawyer for the House, urged the
> Supreme Court not to intervene, pointing to a new Congress in January.
> Any further delay "would leave the committee and Congress as a whole
> little or no time to complete their legislative work," he wrote in a
> brief earlier this month.
> 
> In a terse order, the Supreme Court said it was denying Mr. Trump's
> application for a stay. It did not include any legal reasoning for the
> decision.
> 
> Lawyers for Mr. Trump and a representative for Richard E. Neal, a
> Massachusetts Democrat who is the chairman of the Ways and Means
> Committee, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
> 
> The case traces back to Mr. Trump's refusal in 2016 to make public his
> tax returns, breaking with modern precedent set by presidential
> candidates and presidents.
> 
> In 2019, after Democrats took over the House, Mr. Neal asked the
> Treasury Department to provide them.
> 
> Despite a law that gives the Ways and Means Committee the authority to
> see any taxpayer's documents, the Trump administration refused to let
> the department turn over the records. In July 2019, the House filed a
> lawsuit seeking to enforce its request.
> 
> Mr. Trump's lawyers have argued that Mr. Neal's request lacks a valid
> legislative purpose. His claim that Congress needs the materials to
> study a program that audits presidents is a pretext for a politically
> motivated abuse of power, they have said.
> 
> The case was assigned to a Trump-appointed judge, Trevor N. McFadden,
> who took his time in making a ruling.
> 
> The case was still pending in 2021, when the Biden administration
> entered office and the current Congress was seated. Mr. Neal renewed
> his request and the Justice Department issued a memorandum saying the
> committee had a legal right to the returns.
> 
> In December last year, Judge McFadden moved on the case, ruling that
> the committee had a legal right to the records. But he blocked the
> Treasury Department from turning them over until the Court of Appeals
> for the D.C. Circuit reviewed his decision.
> 
> In August, a panel on the Court of Appeals upheld Judge McFadden's
> decision, but Mr. Trump asked the full appeals court to reconsider the
> matter. It rejected that request last month.
> 
> Mr. Trump then asked the Supreme Court to intervene, and Chief Justice
> John G. Roberts Jr. temporarily extended the block.
> 
> Even though he ensured a conservative supermajority on the court for
> years to come, Mr. Trump has had a mixed record with the justices. In
> recent years, the court has rejected his efforts to challenge aspects
> of the 2020 election, to prevent prosecutors from obtaining his
> financial records, and to have an outside arbiter review sensitive
> documents seized from his residence.
> 
> 
> 

Democrats spying on the TRUMP Presidential Campaign... TRUMP is running 
and the Democrats want to be able to dig into their opposition's 
personal information, if you remember it's how Obama won his State 
Senate seat the first time...  the Democrats there spied on his opponent 
and found sealed divorce papers and they "LEAKED THOSE DIVORCE PAPERS" 
you see it's how the Democrats do things, they illegally spy on people 
to harass and if they don't don't find dirt and to use the dirt if they 
can spy and find dirt, they do it by using that veil of legality with 
illegal warrants or by simply violating the law and then leaking that 
information at the best possible time for their Democrat campaign to win.

Make your Mommy proud, become a sleazy skeazy Democrat, lie cheat and 
steal like a Democrat.


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