Trump Asks Supreme Court To Stop IRS From Turning Over His Tax Returns To The House

Former United States President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to put on hold the release of his tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service to a Democratic-led House committee.

Eko Hot Blog reports that Trump filed the emergency request on Monday with the high court after a federal appellate court cleared the way last week for the returns to be disclosed to the House Ways and Means Committee in the coming days.

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The case is the most direct way for the House to obtain Trump’s federal tax returns after pursuing them through different avenues for years.

The Trump team wants the Supreme Court to put the release of the tax returns on pause while the justices consider whether to take up a case reviewing the lower court rulings okaying their disclosure.

The new filing asks the court to put an administrative hold on the release of the tax returns by Wednesday, as the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling allowing for their disclosure goes into effect on Thursday.

“No Congress has ever wielded its legislative powers to demand a President’s tax returns,” Trump argued to the Supreme Court, as he warned of the “far-reaching implications” implications of the DC Circuit’s ruling.

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He wrote that the way lower courts approached the House request ran afoul of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Mazars case, concerning a subpoena that the House issued Trump’s accounting firm for his tax information.

Source: CNN

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