U.S. judge freezes House lawsuit seeking President Trump's IRS tax records

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

A federal judge froze a House lawsuit on Friday that seeks to enforce a subpoena for six years of President Trump’s federal tax records.

The judge said he will wait at least until an appeals court rules on whether Congress, in a separate case related to former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn, can sue to compel executive branch officials to testify. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden of Washington indicated that the hold in the tax records case could go on longer if the McGahn case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The House sued the administration in July after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to comply with a subpoena for Trump’s business and tax records issued in May.

The Justice Department has sought to toss out the case for Trump’s tax records, based on White House claims of immunity from congressional oversight.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-judge-freezes-house-lawsuit-seeking-president-trumps-irs-tax-records/2020/03/20/34eb3dd6-6ac0-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. "Shall" shall not mean "shall." NT

[Frasier Balzov]

4. Plain meaning rule.

The golden rule of so-called originalism. Such hypocrisy.

[not_the_one]

5. When a judge takes it on themselves to CHANGE the consitution,

I consider that an impeachable offense. Sounds like this judge needs to be informed of what his boundaries are.

Shall means WILL. There is no ambiguity about that.

It doesn't mean maybe, maybe not.

We need to be keeping a list of these shits, and after we take back our government make every single one of them pay. You think you are appointed for life? Let's see about that.

You say it doesn't work that way? The republicans seem to be able to do whatever the fuck they want, and say it is legal. We need to be playing from the same playbook, except we should do it to get back to the original constitutional principles.

If the legislative body uses a legitimate tool of inquiry, and they constitution says you shall do it, you WILL do it or your ass should be in jail.

Come January 21st, I expect the democratic party to start acting like the ruling party. We can put up, or the next election we will get handed our ass.

The turd may have destroyed the republican party, but gutless, spineless, milquetoast democrats will do the same to the democratic party. This is our last chance.

[Firestorm49]

10. You nailed it!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

2. Get used to this crap.

Trump appointee...1 of TOOOOO MANY.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. This is why they had to impeach his orange ass. WH lawyers would have stonewalled for years.

[riversedge]

6. "based on White House claims of immunity from congressional oversight." Only in Trumps vile mind!

[pecosbob]

7. Fix their little wagons come January.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden

District Judge Trevor N. McFadden

District Judge Trevor N. McFaddenJudge Trevor N. McFadden was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2017. He received his B.A. in 2001 from Wheaton College, IL, magna cum laude. In 2006, he received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was an editor for the Virginia Law Review.

[Firestorm49]

9. Well ain't that peachy.

A stupid person like myself, lives by the apparently misguided belief that court systems, no matter at what level, are there to enforce the laws as written. And here you have it. A federal judge does not have the cojones to rule on a legally issued subpoena. Yes, there are procedures and precedents that people like myself don’t fully understand, but to the layman who still has a flicker of belief in a constitutional judicial system, this stinks. The flagrant nose thumbing of this administration to the rule of law is an insult to every American, as it opens the floodgates for further abuse to go unabated.

Rank partisanship has turned this country and it’s legal system into a quagmire. We’ve always had differences of opinion, but the last few years have brought out the worst in jurisprudence.

[Zorro]

12. "...but the last few years have brought out the worst in jurisprudence."

Courtesy of the Republican Party.

[Brainfodder]

13. As if it isn't clear that his papers are NOT exactly in order?

Fools!