Mnuchin says courts need to settle fight over Trump's taxes

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By ANDREW TAYLOR an hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that it’s up to the courts to referee his dispute with House Democrats demanding access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Mnuchin told a Senate panel that the fight between the administration and the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, “will go to the third branch of government to be resolved.”

Neal, D-Mass., has subpoenaed six years’ worth of Trump’s returns with an eye to examining whether Trump is paying all the taxes he owes and whether his web of businesses has created conflicts of interest with his official actions as president. Neal has set a Friday deadline for the IRS to deliver them.

But Mnuchin said that the Treasury Department was unlikely to comply.

“We haven’t made a decision but I think you can guess which way we’re leaning on our subpoena,” Mnuchin said, adding, “I take great comfort that there is a third branch of government to deal with this important issue.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/9774a03af723437dbeeb203d55b5d777

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Hey asshole.................ever fucking hear of Tea Pot Dome corruption, do you not know what LAW was passed to stop the corruption from not paying taxes and bribery and such in that corrupt crime by a "republican " administration in 1920's......................that was trying to curry favors from oil companies..........................here let me remind you asshole........................and while you are it, you and the IRS commissioner should look up the word "shall".......................and see how it it used in practice legislation and law....................you and him really belong in jail for obstruction..............................just like what happened in the 1920's.........................

https://truthout.org/articles/what-the-teapot-dome-scandal-has-to-do-with-trumps-tax-returns/


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. First,

Jail Mnuchin, THEN burn him in Court. The prick needs to eat humble pie, then eat crow.

[turbinetree]

2. He needs to be LOCKED UP..........................and throw away the key..................period

[bluestarone]

3. ONE THING

FAST TRACK this shit! ( i hope they request fast tracking!!)

[ScratchCat]

4. Its going to be funny

When the lower courts defer to Congress and the SCOTUS doesn't take this up. Because courts are very likely to rule that if there was supposed to be a limit to what Congress can request(define legislative purpose), then Congress should have said so in the law. This is actually a very simple legal concept that doesn't require much court scrutiny.

The SCOTUS, unlikely to even hear this, is not going to rule that some other law or part of the Constitution makes the law that allows Congress to request tax returns is "unconstitutional". And they are not going to rule that if Congress is controlled by a party different than that of the POTUS, then they can't request his taxes. No possibility.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Hope the boot licker is charged with violating that provision of the law.

[ancianita]

6. The courts will clear it up all right -- whupping Mnuchin's ass with black letter law.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. It would seem reasonable that Treasury's legal counsel...

would be hauled before the court for a thorough dressing-down.........

[yaesu]

7. jail all those building a wall of obstruction around the orange nazi. nt

[Historic NY]

8. Lock his ass up he is not an elected official...

[Roy Rolling]

9. Delay is a Win

Courts recognize delay tactics. He will be penalized in some creative way for being a prick, because "being a prick" isn't and official legal problem.

I can't wait to see some judge show these pricks who is the smarter and more clever of the two.

[MiniMe]

11. Actually, it would be January 20, 2021

Hopefully, the end of an error

[dajoki]

12. These asswipes will go to the senate...

but are afraid of going in front of the House.

[Skittles]

13. repukes must think they have adequately infiltrated the courts

[librechik]

14. Send Mnuchin to jail, then we can discuss it with the courts.

if he can get out of jail or not.

[Marthe48]

16. this

n/t

[Marthe48]

15. The law is the law, nuthin

You creepy little fated-lipped chinless p.o.s jerk traitor ass. Get the hell out of the government, you ignorant sycophant.