Congress can seek eight years of Trump's tax records, appeals court rules
Source: Washington Post
Congress can seek eight years of President Trumps tax records, according to a federal appeals court order Wednesday that moves the separation-of-powers conflict one step closer to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit let stand an earlier ruling against the president that affirmed Congresss investigative authority on a day when the House was holding its first public impeachment inquiry hearing. Trumps lawyers have said they are prepared to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in this case and in several other legal battles between the president and Congress.
The D.C. Circuit was responding Wednesday to Trumps request to have a full panel of judges rehear a three-judge decision from October that rejected the presidents request to block lawmakers from subpoenaing his longtime accounting firm.The order does not mean Trumps taxes will be turned over to Congress immediately. The D.C. Circuit previously said it would put any ruling against the president on hold for seven days to give Trumps attorneys time to ask the Supreme Court to step in.
Trumps attorneys also are planning to ask the high court as soon as this week to block a similar subpoena for the presidents tax records from the Manhattan district attorney, who is investigating hush-money payments in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The New York-based appeals court ruled against Trump this month and refused to block the subpoena to his accounting firm, Mazars USA.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/congress-can-seek-eight-years-of-trumps-tax-records-appeals-court-rules/2019/11/13/b4fc8002-fc07-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)Team trump has already said they are taking the Manhattan AG to supreme court about tax returns...now looks like this ruling for congress will go to supreme court as well.
How I despise crooked ass trump.
And just how do you think this Supreme Court will rule????????????????????????????????
Just like the celebration over the impeachment confirming Trump is nothing but Fraud, but Just how do you think this
Republican Senate will vote.........
More and more, it seems like this Democracy is all over..................
Bayard
(22,063 posts)The stress, and his health/physical condition, can't be compatible.
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)as I think that court is 7 (D) - 4 (R).
BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)By Charlie Savage
Nov. 13, 2019, 7:23 p.m. ET
/snip
A three-judge appeals court panel in October rejected that sweeping argument and upheld Congresss authority to issue the subpoena by a 2-to-1 vote. But Mr. Trump petitioned the full court to erase that ruling and reconsider the case. The court on Wednesday rejected his request, 8 to 3.
The eight judges in the majority included seven appointed by Democratic presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. One, Judge Thomas Griffith, was appointed by President George W. Bush, a Republican.
The three judges who dissented were all appointed by Republican presidents: both of Mr. Trumps appointees on the bench, Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, the latter of whom had been the dissenting vote in the earlier panel decision. The third was a judge appointed by President George Bush, Karen L. Henderson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/politics/trump-financial-records-lawsuit.html
Confirmed my previous post meaning 1 (R) judge voted along with the 7 (D)s.
William Weehours
(59 posts)If he's sufficiently sloshed when this gets to SCOTUS, he might forget Trump's instructions and actually uphold the Constitution.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)William Weehours
(59 posts)And the GOP is most definitely crap!
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)Probably doesnt have any legal bearing but its worth a shot!
BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)So it's been that stupid game of cat and mouse that has wound up in multiple courts with both Congress and NY state attempting to get them.
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)Or PROVE IT.
BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)ScratchCat
(1,988 posts)Would tend to indicate he has little chance to prevail at SCOTUS.
BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)but one of the 8 was a Shrub appointee, which was interesting.
oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,909 posts)oldsoftie
(12,533 posts)And the sad thing is his minions wont even research to find out the truth