Associated Press

Supreme Court OKs handover of Trump tax returns to Congress

MARK SHERMAN
Tue, November 22, 2022 at 2:39 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the imminent handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee after a three-year legal fight.

The court, without comment, rejected Trump's plea for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.

It was Trump's second loss at the Supreme Court in as many months. In October, the court refused to step into the legal fight surrounding the FBI search of Trump's Florida estate that turned up classified documents.

In the dispute over his tax returns, the Treasury Department had refused to provide the records during Trump's presidency. But the Biden administration said federal law is clear that the committee has the right to examine any taxpayer's return, including the president's.

Lower courts agreed that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump's claims that it was overstepping and only wanted the documents so they could be made public.

Chief Justice John Roberts imposed a temporary freeze on Nov. 1 to allow the court to weigh the legal issues raised by Trump's lawyers and the counter arguments of the administration and the House of Representatives.

Just over three weeks later, the court lifted Roberts' order with no noted dissents.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The House contended an order preventing the IRS from providing the tax returns would leave lawmakers "little or no time to complete their legislative work during this Congress, which is quickly approaching its end."

Had Trump persuaded the nation's highest court to intervene, he could have run out the clock on the committee, with Republicans ready to take control of the House in January. They almost certainly would have dropped the records request if the issue had not been resolved by then.

The House Ways and Means panel and its chairman, Democrat Richard Neal of Massachusetts, first requested Trump's tax returns in 2019 as part of an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's audit program and tax law compliance by the former president. A federal law says the Internal Revenue Service "shall furnish" the returns of any taxpayer to a handful of top lawmakers.

The Justice Department under the Trump administration had defended a decision by then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to withhold the tax returns from Congress. Mnuchin argued that he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit ensued.

After President Joe Biden took office, the committee renewed the request, seeking Trump's tax returns and additional information from 2015-2020. The White House took the position that the request was a valid one and that the Treasury Department had no choice but to comply. Trump then attempted to halt the handover in court.

Then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. obtained copies of Trump's personal and business tax records as part of a criminal investigation. That case, too, went to the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump's argument that he had broad immunity as president.

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Dora Hates You

This should be fun.

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When America was "great"

Good. Expect the new Congress will want to see Dementia Joe's returns.

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I :heart; Q

Unlike Trump who lied/stalled/lied some more/made lame excuses/and never did release his tax returns as he said he would, the Bidens actually disclose their tax returns to the public willingly.

https://www.politico.com/news/...en-tax-return-00025643

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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

popcorn plz

...and Hunters...to compare to Joes.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Trump always said he would release them one day. Well? It's one day even if he didn't choose the one day. No surprises here. He doesn't pay taxes. Never has.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Yep. Six years of tax lies from Trump. He was defended at every step and every excuse was used.

Any of you clowns care to admit you were wrong? And that you bought the lie, over and over and over and over and over?

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I was right.

Edited: 11/23/2022 at 06:15 AM by Cole

What lies?

Seriously....list them!

Liar!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Think he is referring to his own. Too many to list. But we bought into his lies? Hardly. If Cole says something, I assume the exact opposite is true. That works out pretty well.

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I :heart; Q

Trump has been under audit for six years now, according to him anyway. That is a lie. It is a lie all of you have backed.

He is a criminal, and he knows he is a criminal, hence the blocking of his taxes.

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I was right.

He has in fact been under audit for LONGER than 6 years.

That was proved long ago...moron!

http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...ually-take-2020-10-01



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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 11/23/2022 at 07:15 AM by Fish Killer

Read this back to yourself and tell me it doesn't sound like you are half heartedly trying to convince yourself of something. You sound like that all of the time now. Nobody else is buying it.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

T-fap has said climate change is a hoax. T-fap has said it is real, but it's too late to do anything about it.

He most certainly isn't an arbiter of truth.

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I was right.

Read this back to yourself and tell me it doesn't sound like you are half heartedly trying to convince yourself of some serious bullshit that you concocted a few minutes ago to make everyone think you are observant.



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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

qrump will be slow walking handing it over so that the house can go under qop control andcancel - but now's the senates turn to 'check him out'..

Remember Bengazi? Karma...

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There are NO white people at all in the Bible... take all the time you need with that...
Please stop feeding the trolls - they will go away if you do...

...the demoshit kangaroo courts need to be shut down.

FACT!

WHATEVER THAT TAKES!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Karma is a Bitch !!! Donnie seems to have gotten the "righteous court" that he wanted.

He seems to have made very good choices for his Supremes.

Good on the Court.

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Dora Hates You

Funny thing is that I wasn't referring to the Supreme Court.

They in fact made a WRONG decision.

If the partisan demoshit inquisition can obtain Trumps PRIVATE IRS TAX DOCUMENTS then they can much easier acquire YOURS...and use that to defeat or trash YOU!

Only a total idiot would want that.

Oh wait...you have proved to be that total idiot several times before.

Carry on.

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Edited: 11/24/2022 at 06:51 AM by Fish Killer

The guy that molested the flag and wants to make America Great and Glorious Again cheats on his taxes and pays his accountants off the books to hide his income. He has three sets of books. One for the IRS, one for the lenders, and the real set. He doesn't have a defense, just a rationalization that everyone does it and he's being treated so unfairly because he's never had accountability successfully forced upon him.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.