Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Order to
Turn Over Trump’s Tax Returns to Congress
Breitbart Politics,
by
Joshua Caplan
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/18/2019 3:36:12 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a ruling requiring an accounting firm, Mazars USA, to hand over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress. Chief Justice John Roberts’s order contains no hint about how the Supreme Court ultimately will resolve the dispute. It follows a filing by the House earlier Monday in which the House agreed to a brief halt for the orderly filing of legal briefs, while opposing any lengthy delay. Those written arguments will allow the justices to decide whether they will jump into the tussle between Congress and the president.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
HHFi2 11/18/2019 4:23:16 PM (No. 238600)
Dems are trying to frame this as Trump claiming to be immune from all laws. What this is really about is the prosecutors' abuse of power in demanding to see private records and rifle through them, hunting for a crime to charge him with. This is supposed to be America, not the old East Germany. If you think you have reasonable suspicion of a specific crime, you go to a judge or grand jury first, make your case and get a subpoena. You don't get to just burst into someone's home and look around for any evidence of some crime or another. In a nation with so many laws we all violate 10 before breakfast without even knowing it, the government could railroad anyone into jail if prosecutors were given carte blanche, as we've seen with the Mueller vultures staging midnight raids of the homes of Trump associates of retirement age and sending them to prison for decades, mostly for process crimes and doing things that half the residents of DC do every day and nobody bats an eye.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/18/2019 4:25:03 PM (No. 238602)
Someone needs to step in and stop the daily assault on The President. He has a right to run this country without having to fight for his life every single day. There are supposed to be separations between the three Houses of Congress. I don't think the House NEEDS to see his Tax Returns. I also don't think the House (or Joe Scarborough) needs to see his Health records. I think it's time for someone to stop this nonsense. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who is sick and tired of this game the Democrats are playing. I hope Judge Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court slaps down these people for good! When does the Attorney General step and stop the Judges around this country from putting stops on everything the president tries to do? It's time to take back the control that WE the people earned when we elected Trump President. It starts by taking Back the House! Then we need to dig into Schiff's life and drag up every single piece of dirt and make sure his power to destroy our President is a thing of the past! The only way to stop the Nasty Democrats from going after Trump is to play by their Rules. Fight as dirty as possible and never, ever stop trying to win!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 11/18/2019 4:36:58 PM (No. 238617)
Did the House dems actually just declare that our income tax is "voluntary"?
“In refusing to comply with the statute, Defendants have mounted an extraordinary attack on the authority of Congress to obtain information needed to conduct oversight of Treasury, the IRS, and the tax laws on behalf of the American people who participate in the nation’s voluntary tax system,”
And did they, with a straight face, state they need The Presidents tax filings to help them determine if the IRS is treating normal, non-billionaire, working class "voluntary taxpayers" fairly?
Lawyers really do live in an alternate universe.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 11/18/2019 5:15:11 PM (No. 238641)
If anyone thinks that a bunch of lawyers are going to be able to analyze a tax return the size of PDJT's and find something illegal within, they are delusional. The returns of the very wealthy are given scrutiny the level of which would make a proctologist wince. If there were ever anything found that was illegal or shady, DJT would be in jail, not the White House.
6 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
ginadee 11/18/2019 5:59:56 PM (No. 238658)
They don't care about what's in them, they just want to win the battle.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/18/2019 6:29:50 PM (No. 238672)
PDT should stop all this idiocy by simply saying, “I’ll turn over my tax returns when Obama unseals all of his records.”
10 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 11/18/2019 8:46:10 PM (No. 238747)
Any novice can make mountain out of the smallest line item in a tax return.
It would take someone with great tax experience to understand PDT's tax filings.
2 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
XCenturion 11/18/2019 8:50:07 PM (No. 238749)
Hopefully every person elected to public office will have to turn over their tax returns if this ruling goes against the President! I'd love to know where Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren made their millions!
4 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 11/18/2019 8:57:40 PM (No. 238754)
I really don't care to see President Trump's tax returns. He entered the presidenecy as a billionaire. I want to the congress's tax returns. They enter as normal income people and leave as multimillionaires. I'd love to know why.
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
ironchefw 11/18/2019 9:52:23 PM (No. 238802)
SHow us Obama's grades first.
2 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/18/2019 10:09:00 PM (No. 238813)
Why doesn't the Congressional Democrats get the returns from the IRS, or the NY Dept of Revenue? Why are they trying to intimidate and strangle a small accounting firm? Frankly, I think they already have them, but can't use them, because they would have to reveal how they got them.
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 11/19/2019 12:08:40 AM (No. 238873)
The IRS audits Trump every year.
This has been going on for decades.
There is no there there.
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