Us Supreme Court Blocks Delivery Of Trump S Tax Returns To Congress Us Supreme Court

Roberts’ order gives the high court time to weigh the legal issues in the former president’s emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday. Without judicial intervention, the US Treasury Department could have provided the tax returns to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee as early as Thursday. Roberts gave the commission until Nov. 10 to respond. The chief justice handles emergency appeals from Washington, where the fight over Trump’s taxes has been ongoing since 2019. Lower courts ruled that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump’s claims that he overreached. If Trump succeeds in persuading the nation’s highest court to intervene in that case, he could delay a final decision until the next Congress begins in January. If Republicans regain control of the House after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, they could reject the records request. The temporary stay imposed by Roberts is the third such order the judges have issued in recent days in cases related to Trump. The court is separately considering U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s emergency appeal to avoid testifying before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible illegal interference by Trump and his allies in the state’s 2020 election. Also before the court is an emergency appeal by Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward to prevent the release of phone records to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. The House Ways and Means committee and its Democratic chairman, Richard Neal of Massachusetts, first requested Trump’s 2019 tax returns as part of an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) audit program and compliance with tax legislation by the former president. A federal law says the IRS “shall provide” any taxpayer’s returns to a handful of top lawmakers. The US Justice Department, under the Trump administration, had defended then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s decision to withhold tax returns from Congress. Mnuchin argued he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit followed. After Joe Biden took over the Oval Office, the committee renewed the request, asking for Trump’s tax returns and additional information for 2015-2020. The White House took the position that the request was valid and that the Treasury Department had no choice but to comply. Trump then tried to stop the extradition in court. The Manhattan district attorney at the time, Cyrus Vance Jr., obtained copies of Trump’s personal and business tax records as part of a criminal investigation. And that case went to the high court, which rejected Trump’s argument that he had broad immunity as president. Trump had recently sought judicial intervention in a legal dispute stemming from the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August. The court dismissed this appeal.

title: “Us Supreme Court Blocks Delivery Of Trump S Tax Returns To Congress Us Supreme Court " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-10” author: “Brian Johnson”

Roberts’ order gives the high court time to weigh the legal issues in the former president’s emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday. Without judicial intervention, the US Treasury Department could have provided the tax returns to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee as early as Thursday. Roberts gave the commission until Nov. 10 to respond. The chief justice handles emergency appeals from Washington, where the fight over Trump’s taxes has been ongoing since 2019. Lower courts ruled that the committee has broad authority to obtain tax returns and rejected Trump’s claims that he overreached. If Trump succeeds in persuading the nation’s highest court to intervene in that case, he could delay a final decision until the next Congress begins in January. If Republicans regain control of the House after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, they could reject the records request. The temporary stay imposed by Roberts is the third such order the judges have issued in recent days in cases related to Trump. The court is separately considering U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s emergency appeal to avoid testifying before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible illegal interference by Trump and his allies in the state’s 2020 election. Also before the court is an emergency appeal by Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward to prevent the release of phone records to the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol. The House Ways and Means committee and its Democratic chairman, Richard Neal of Massachusetts, first requested Trump’s 2019 tax returns as part of an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) audit program and compliance with tax legislation by the former president. A federal law says the IRS “shall provide” any taxpayer’s returns to a handful of top lawmakers. The US Justice Department, under the Trump administration, had defended then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s decision to withhold tax returns from Congress. Mnuchin argued he could withhold the documents because he concluded they were being sought by Democrats for partisan reasons. A lawsuit followed. After Joe Biden took over the Oval Office, the committee renewed the request, asking for Trump’s tax returns and additional information for 2015-2020. The White House took the position that the request was valid and that the Treasury Department had no choice but to comply. Trump then tried to stop the extradition in court. The Manhattan district attorney at the time, Cyrus Vance Jr., obtained copies of Trump’s personal and business tax records as part of a criminal investigation. And that case went to the high court, which rejected Trump’s argument that he had broad immunity as president. Trump had recently sought judicial intervention in a legal dispute stemming from the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August. The court dismissed this appeal.