President Trump’s accounting firm is just one step away from having to turn over eight years of tax records, after the US Court of Appeals for DC shut down Trump’s last attempt to reconsider the case.
A majority of the court’s 11-judge panel voted to uphold an October 11 decision by a three-judge panel that accounting firm Mazars USA must hand over the records to Congress without a successful appeal. Of those who would have granted a rehearing, two are Trump appointees - Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas, who served in the Trump administration.
“This case presents exceptionally important questions regarding the separation of powers,” wrote Katsas.
He warned of the “threat to presidential autonomy and independence” and said it would be “open season on the President’s personal records” if Congress is allowed to compel the president to disclose personal records based on the possibility that it might inform legislation. -Washington Post
As a result, Trump will ask the Supreme Court to consider the case, according to Trump attorkey Jay Sekulow, who said in response to Wednesday’s decision that the legal team “will be seeking review at the Supreme Court,” according to the Washington Post.
Sekulow in a statement cited the “well reasoned dissent” in Trump’s decision to go to the Supreme Court.
Trump’s attorneys also are planning to ask the high court as soon as Thursday to block a similar subpoena for the president’s tax records from the Manhattan district attorney, who is investigating hush-money payments in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The New York-based appeals court ruled against Trump this month and refused to block the subpoena to his accounting firm, Mazars USA.
The D.C. Circuit case centers on a House Oversight Committee subpoena from March for the president’s accounting firm records — issued months before the beginning of its impeachment inquiry, related to Trump’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden. -Washington Post
“Contrary to the President’s arguments, the Committee possesses authority under both the House Rules and the Constitution to issue the subpoena, and Mazars must comply,” wrote Democrat-nominated Judges David S. Tatel and Patricia A. Millett.
Rao, the dissenting judge on the October 11 panel, reiterated that she felt the Congressional committee had exceeded its authority with a legislative subpoena “investigating whether the President broke the law.”
“By upholding this subpoena, the panel opinion has shifted the balance of power between Congress and the President and allowed a congressional committee to circumvent the careful process of impeachment,” she wrote.
Rao also wrote Wednesday that the committee “is wrong to suggest” that questions over whether the subpoena is valid “are no longer of ‘practical consequence,'” and that it’s an open question as to “whether a defective subpoena can be revived by after-the-fact approval.”
via zerohedge
Why does he have a problem releasing his tax records? He’s assured us they’re great and he’d be happy to show them.
“Tax returns are not public record; they are private. Tax returns contain confidential information that is not readily available to the public. With the increasing number of online tax filing services, some information is being used and sold publicly, but that is not advocated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).”
Doesn’t have to. Take it all the way to the Supreme Court. This is just a Democratic liberal “fishing expedition” to try to change the Seat of the Presidency. Why do you think they are using “hearsay” in this so-called Schiffy impeachment show?
If this is all allowed, No President will stand a chance if the Established Elite feels Their “private financial profits thru Foreign Affairs (State Dept) is threatened. They want to get rid of the courts, the President position (if they don’t like him). Basically they are spitting on OUR Constitution.
So TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE SUPREME COURT PRESIDENT TRUMP!
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/11/15/swalwell-trumps-yovanovitch-tweet-should-be-considered-as-new-impeachment-article/
So tweeting will be considered an article of impeachment?
Yep, quid pro quo didn’t work.
extortion didn’t work
bribery didn’t work
So let’s go into our “star cave” and write a article of impeachment because they can’t get President Trump on anything else.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
Another fishing expedition. Once Trump can be investigated (and anyone associated with him) in hopes of finding a crime then it can happen to anyone. Prosecutorial and investigative powers should be scaled back, not expanded, at all levels of government.