Trump Sues Ways and Means and NY Officials to protect tax returns

Page 3 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
A

alien42

Lifer
Nov 28, 2004
12,638
3,033
136
Judge dismisses Trump effort to block Congress from obtaining his taxes

"District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, dismissed the case, citing Supreme Court precedent...

The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the IRS to release Trump’s tax returns in April 2019, kick-starting a lengthy court battle...

In his ruling, McFadden suggested that Neal should refrain from making Trump’s tax information public, though he noted it was the "chairman’s right to do so."

two and a half years was far too long for this decision to be final and i hope that Rep Neal releases them to the public.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea, hal2kilo, dank69 and 1 other person
T

tweaker2

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
14,538
6,976
136
alien42 said:
Judge dismisses Trump effort to block Congress from obtaining his taxes

"District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, dismissed the case, citing Supreme Court precedent...

The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., asked the IRS to release Trump’s tax returns in April 2019, kick-starting a lengthy court battle...

In his ruling, McFadden suggested that Neal should refrain from making Trump’s tax information public, though he noted it was the "chairman’s right to do so."

two and a half years was far too long for this decision to be final and i hope that Rep Neal releases them to the public.
Click to expand...


Would be a good bargaining chip to have Trump admit to lesser crimes and get his ass thrown in jail for a decade or two.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea, hal2kilo and cytg111
mikeymikec

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
17,720
9,603
136
OP said:
President Trump on Tuesday sued the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials for employing an "unconstitutional" law to obtain his state tax returns...
Click to expand...

I think a judge should use Billy Connolly's response to a heckler:

"Don't tell me how to do my job! Do I come in to your rehab class and show you how to fucking finger-paint?!?"

 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea
N

NWRMidnight

Platinum Member
Jun 18, 2001
2,950
2,558
136
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Appeals, appeals, appeals and more appeals. The unGreat Orange will be long dead and buried and Junior will still be filing appeals .....
Click to expand...
We have a problem with abuse of the legal system and courts in this country. Appeals are not supposed to be for "I don't like the ruling". m They are supposed to be if there where mistakes in the trial, misconduct, or new evidence found.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea
F

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
84,064
48,073
136
At a minimum legislation needs to be passed to expedite conflicts between the political branches because as Trump has shown here it is possible to run out the clock through bad faith abuse of the system designed only to delay until your term is up or your party takes a house of Congress.

Again, these disputes should be decided in a matter of weeks, not months.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea, tweaker2, hal2kilo and 6 others
HomerJS

HomerJS

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
36,060
27,793
136
We should expand the federal courts just to deal with inter branch/government disputes. This way stalling would be muted.

When they aren't busy the can take some other cases.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leeea and hal2kilo
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
Nov 17, 2019
10,818
6,476
136
Many of these cases should have been rejected by the courts to begin with and deferred back to the Legislative process ... documents turned over automatically by the IRS and Archivist on request of Congress.
 
F

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
84,064
48,073
136
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Many of these cases should have been rejected by the courts to begin with and deferred back to the Legislative process ... documents turned over automatically by the IRS and Archivist on request of Congress.
Click to expand...
Well the issue with that is that IRS and the National Archives are controlled by the president and he ordered them not to.

That being said, the arguments here are transparent, bad faith bullshit and our courts are still operating under the assumption that the executive branch will not act in transparent bad faith which is, uh, clearly not the case.
 
  • Like
Reactions: hal2kilo and uclaLabrat
Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lifer
Nov 17, 2019
10,818
6,476
136
fskimospy said:
Well the issue with that is that IRS and the National Archives are controlled by the president and he ordered them not to.
Click to expand...
When Congress requests government documents, they should be delivered automatically. Most are digitized at least to some extent, so they could be delivered within hours.
 
T

tweaker2

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
14,538
6,976
136
fskimospy said:
At a minimum legislation needs to be passed to expedite conflicts between the political branches because as Trump has shown here it is possible to run out the clock through bad faith abuse of the system designed only to delay until your term is up or your party takes a house of Congress.

Again, these disputes should be decided in a matter of weeks, not months.
Click to expand...


Trump's ploy of running out the clock has managed to aggregate a very impressive list of lawsuits against him. I wonder how he's managing to run away from so many of them:

www.justsecurity.org

Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump

This public resource, a litigation tracker, compiles and provides information on all of the criminal and civil cases currently facing former President Donald Trump.
www.justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org
 
  • Like
Reactions: hal2kilo
F

fskimospy

Elite Member
Mar 10, 2006
84,064
48,073
136
tweaker2 said:
Trump's ploy of running out the clock has managed to aggregate a very impressive list of lawsuits against him. I wonder how he's managing to run away from so many of them:

www.justsecurity.org

Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump

This public resource, a litigation tracker, compiles and provides information on all of the criminal and civil cases currently facing former President Donald Trump.
www.justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org
Click to expand...

Lawyers on retainer with the instructions that delaying the lawsuit is their primary goal, not winning it.
 
  • Like
Reactions: hal2kilo and tweaker2
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

Lifer
Feb 24, 2009
23,442
10,333
136
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Appeals, appeals, appeals and more appeals. The unGreat Orange will be long dead and buried and Junior will still be filing appeals .....
Click to expand...
He benefits greatly from the long slow process of American justice, while at the same time, trashes it verbally, on a regular basis.
 
dainthomas

dainthomas

Lifer
Dec 7, 2004
14,592
3,427
136
fskimospy said:
So at long last the DC Circuit has ruled that by the plain language of the statute of course Congress can get access to Trump's tax returns.


The fact that it took this long is an indictment of our system.
Click to expand...

His go to strategy of throwing money at legal problems until his opponent runs out of cash and drops it or stops caring doesn't work quite as well with the government. But yeah, the fact that it's even possible to drag something out for this many years is crazy.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Captante and hal2kilo
T

tweaker2

Lifer
Aug 5, 2000
14,538
6,976
136
I really do hope I'm still around to see Trump and his kids in orange jumpsuits cleaning up trash along the highways or sweeping up street trash in front of Trump Tower and the whole length of Fifth Ave.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Muse and Leeea
sportage

sportage

Lifer
Feb 1, 2008
11,493
3,159
136
Monday Oct 31st
Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House

CNN
Former 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.
Trump filed the emergency request on Monday with the high court after a federal appeals court cleared the way last week for the returns to be disclosed to the House Ways and Means Committee in the coming days.
Click to expand...

Apparently, there is no limit to the number of rabbits Donald Trump can pull out of his magic hat. It amazes me. Trump always finds some way, some obscure little hidden law/rule/loophole to use against his being brought to justice. Shit.... Jesus never had it so good. The romans went after jesus and the romans won, whereas Donald Trump eludes and evades procession time after time. Endlessly.
If Jesus only had the lawyers that Donald Trump has, Jesus would never have hung on that cross.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom