House Democrats cannot immediately access President Trump's tax and financial records, after court r
Source: Washington Post
House Democrats cannot immediately access President Trumps tax and financial records, after court ruling
By
Ann E. Marimow
Dec. 30, 2020 at 12:38 p.m. CST
President Trump ran out the clock Wednesday in his long-running legal battle to shield his tax and financial records from Congress when a federal appeals court declined to rule on the matter and sent the case back to a lower court.
The brief order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit does not mean that the effort by House Democrats to access Trumps business records is over. But the congressional term will expire and Trump will leave office in January without having his financial data turned over to lawmakers.
The D.C. Circuit emphasized that it was not taking sides. The one-page order noted that the House intends to reissue the subpoena to Trumps longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, at the start of the new Congress next week.
We express no view as to whether this case will become moot when the subpoena expires or as to the merits of the parties arguments, according to the unsigned order from Judges David S. Tatel, Patricia A. Millett and Neomi Rao.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-taxes-house-lawsuit/2020/12/30/47dbf89c-24ef-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)They_Live
(3,253 posts)to national security. That used to be a big deal, right?
PSPS
(13,662 posts)Once trump's toady/henchman is removed, I presume the IRS will start complying with the law again.
getagrip_already
(15,146 posts)The head of the irs vacuumed up all of trumps returns for "security reasons" and locked them up. All the data, even digital, was removed from records..
What really makes anyone think that mystery safe will have anything in it when they look?
Evolve Dammit
(16,890 posts)Karma13612
(4,555 posts)Read on that?
Is that legal?
NYC Liberal
(20,142 posts)MichMan
(12,029 posts)Nitram
(23,096 posts)and misery that is to come for Donald Trump: failed con, failed president, and failed businessman. Failed human being, for that matter.
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