Anonymous wrote:“President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop a prosecutor’s investigation of his personal finances, a bold assertion of presidential power that seeks a landmark decision from the nation’s highest court.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-shield-his-tax-returns-from-prosecutors-setting-up-historic-separation-of-power-showdown/2019/11/14/d7b176a0-04dd-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html
Anonymous wrote:Thoughts and prayers...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/trump-loses-appeal-of-new-york-tax-returns-case.html
Anonymous wrote:Oral argument today, in which Trump’s lawyer is arguing that the President can’t even be investigated for anything while in office.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?465172-1/circuit-hears-oral-argument-president-trumps-tax-returns-audio-only
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I know it was just custom and not law that we see the taxes of candidates, but is it law that we see the taxes of Presidents (*)?
It’s understandably confusing because there are so many different things going on with his taxes.
This thread involves a subpoena by the Manhattan district attorney who wants to see Trump’s taxes because they’ve been investigating and think there are illegal things going on in them. I think there is also a similar, separate investigation going on by the New York State Attorney General.
You are correct that it’s only tradition that calls for presidential candidates to release their tax returns, not a law.
There is a federal law, however, that if the head of the House’s Ways & Means committee asks to see someone’s - anyone’s - tax returns, the IRS shall turn them over. Rep. Neal has requested them and Mnuchin said no. There is separate litigation going on over that.
There is also a federal law that says that the tax returns of the president and vice president need to be audited by the IRS. There is a whistleblower in the IRS who has come forward with a complaint to the Treasury IG that says that someone in the IRS is interfering in that process.
There is also a tradition, not a law AFAIK, that current presidents release their tax returns, once audited, for the years when they are in office. That obviously is not happening.
Hope this helps!
Anonymous wrote:The special council had access to his tax returns as does the DOJ even long before Barr or any "DOJ" loyalist was in power. If the taxes were the "smoking gun" people think they are the anti-Trump FBI under Comey would have found easy pickens charging Trump. None of this is to say he definitely did not "launder" money for Russia or Putin. That was what the special council spent two years investigating. However, if there were cimes would they be "discovered" through his tax returns? These returns were submitted to treasury. They are not "hidden."
Where is the evidence that Mueller or DOJ has his tax returns? There was no mention of them in the Mueller Report. No attempt at all to “follow the money.”
And, they were submitted to Treasury but Treasury is illegally refusing to turn them over to Congress. But that also doesn’t have anything to do with this case.
The special council had access to his tax returns as does the DOJ even long before Barr or any "DOJ" loyalist was in power. If the taxes were the "smoking gun" people think they are the anti-Trump FBI under Comey would have found easy pickens charging Trump. None of this is to say he definitely did not "launder" money for Russia or Putin. That was what the special council spent two years investigating. However, if there were cimes would they be "discovered" through his tax returns? These returns were submitted to treasury. They are not "hidden."
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:An appeal has been filed on an emergency basis. It will ultimately be decided by the Supreme court.
And we will find out if Trump has unlimited power and protection.
I feel strongly that It the “Roberts Court” and Roberts will swing against Trump. He does not want his legacy to be the unlimited power of executive branch, rampant corruption, and the destruction of the separation of powers. He’s conservative. But old school, Bush style, which is not this. I bet— by a lot— that 3rd Circuit moves it fast and SCOTUS denies cert. trump has little legal merit and not real issues of law. He just doesn’t want to. Which isn’t a great legal argument.
And events on the ground mean everyone wants this to move fast. Like when they are seeking a stay of execution. They are on the clock.