Supreme Court temporarily blocks House committee from getting Donald Trump's tax returns

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks House committee from getting Donald Trump's tax returns

Trump has waged a battle against the House committee for years.
ByAaron Katersky and Tal Axelrod
November 1, 2022, 9:17 AM

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has granted a temporary administrative stay of a lower court order as the House Ways and Means Committee attempts to gain access to former President Donald Trump's tax returns.

The ruling prevents the committee from accessing Trump's tax returns as the court considers a final decision.

Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to block the House Ways and Means Committee from accessing his tax returns.

The committee has requested six years' worth of Trump's returns as part of an investigation into IRS audit practices of presidents and vice presidents.

In his petition to the Supreme Court, Trump accused the committee of seeking his taxes under false pretenses.

"The Committee's purpose in requesting President Trump's tax returns has nothing to do with funding or staffing issues at the IRS and everything to do with releasing the President's tax information to the public," the petition said.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-asks-supreme-court-block-house-committee/story?id=92437865

[Right_in_Virginia]

The committee has to respond before Nov 10 at 10:00 am.

[Right_in_Virginia]

“This case raises important questions about the separation of powers that will affect every future President,” Trump’s lawyers said in their emergency application to Chief Justice John Roberts. The chief justice has authority over such petitions from cases arising from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Trump’s lawyers asked the court to act by Wednesday to delay an appeals court ruling that cleared the way for the IRS to deliver the tax returns on Thursday.

The delay would give Trump time to formally ask the high court to hear an appeal of the ruling. But the lawyers also said the Supreme Court could consider Monday’s filing itself a request to hear the case.

The filing accused the committee of trying to get Trump’s tax returns solely for the purpose of releasing them to the public, and not for a review of IRS audits of presidents, as the House panel has stated.

More:  https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-congress-getting-his-tax-returns.html

[GtHawk]

They want to investigate IRS audits of Presidents...I wonder what the odds are that Trump is the only living President that the IRS has audited? And those audits were no doubt when he was a PRIVATE citizen.