Congress can seek eight years of Trump's tax records, appeals court rules

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

Congress can seek eight years of President Trump’s 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 Congress’s investigative authority on a day when the House was holding its first public impeachment inquiry hearing. Trump’s 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 Trump’s request to have a full panel of judges rehear a three-judge decision from October that rejected the president’s request to block lawmakers from subpoenaing his longtime accounting firm.The order does not mean Trump’s 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 Trump’s attorneys time to ask the Supreme Court to step in.

Trump’s attorneys also are planning to ask the high court as soon as this week to block a similar subpoena for the president’s 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]

1. trump loses another lawsuit on tax returns

Link to tweet

[iluvtennis]

2. Excellent news. nt

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.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. And

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]

3. I'm thinking he's just going to stroke out

The stress, and his health/physical condition, can't be compatible.

[Gothmog]

4. New: DC Circuit, voting 8-3, upholds October panel ruling

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

5. That's interesting

as I think that court is 7 (D) - 4 (R).

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Found this about the 8-3

Court Rejects Trump’s Appeal in Fight to Keep Financial Records From Congress

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 Congress’s 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. Trump’s 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]

7. Ship a hundred cases of beer to Brett Kavanaugh

If he's sufficiently sloshed when this gets to SCOTUS, he might forget Trump's instructions and actually uphold the Constitution.

[gopiscrap]

14. welcome to DU

[William Weehours]

20. Thanks

And the GOP is most definitely crap!

[oldsoftie]

8. Someone should bring up that trump said he'd release them after the election.

Probably doesnt have any legal bearing but its worth a shot!

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The media have brought that up many times and his excuse was always "they were still being audited".

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]

10. Oh yeah, "audit". Someone should point out that NO audit lasts 4+ yrs!!!

Or PROVE IT.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I think a court release is getting close.

[ScratchCat]

12. An 8-3 ruling

Would tend to indicate he has little chance to prevail at SCOTUS.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. That court is 7(D) - 4(R)

but one of the 8 was a Shrub appointee, which was interesting.

[oldsoftie]

15. Obviously part of the "deep state"

[BumRushDaShow]

16. LOL or a "Never Trumper"

[oldsoftie]

17. I love how they'll call someone with 40 yrs exp an "Obama holdover"

And the sad thing is his minions wont even research to find out the truth

[BumRushDaShow]

18. They don't care. They always point the finger of blame at someone else.