The order clears the way for Democrats to obtain Trump's tax records weeks before Republicans take control of the House in January.
to block the Treasury Department from turning over several years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, clearing the way for Democrats to obtain the records weeks before Republicans take control of the House in January.
The dispute between Trump and the Ways and Means Committee arose from an April 2019 request from Chairman Richard Neal to the Internal Revenue Service for Trump's individual tax records and those of eight of his business entities for 2013 to 2018. Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, made the request under a federal law that allows the Ways and Means chairman to request certain individuals' tax returns.
"While it is possible that Congress may attempt to threaten the sitting president with an invasive request after leaving office, every president takes office knowing that he will be subject to the same laws as all other citizens upon leaving office," Sentelle wrote."This is a feature of our democratic republic, not a bug."The IRS was set to release the former president's financial records to the Ways and Means Committee on Nov.
But in asking the Supreme Court to allow the House to obtain Trump's records, the Biden administrationthe lower courts' conclusions that Neal's request serves a legitimate legislative purpose, and it"warranted involvement of the former president's papers because it implicated a program applicable only to the president and vice president."
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