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REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File PhotoNov 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the release of Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee, handing a defeat to the Republican former president who had called the Democratic-led panel's request politically motivated. The panel in its request invoked a federal law that empowers its chairman to request any person's tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). House Democrats have said they need to see Trump's tax returns to assess whether the IRS is properly auditing presidential returns and to gauge whether new legislation is needed. Trump's lawyers have said the committee's real aim is to publicly expose his tax returns and unearth politically damaging information about Trump. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in August also ruled against Trump and in October refused a rehearing.

Chief Justice John Roberts effectively paused the dispute on Nov. 1, preventing the committee from obtaining Trump's returns while the court considered the matter. House Democrats have said they need to see Trump's tax returns to assess whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is properly auditing presidential returns and to gauge whether new legislation is needed. The committee in its request invoked a federal law that empowers its chairman to seek any person's tax returns from the IRS. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, sided with Congress in December 2021 and threw out the challenge, finding that the committee holds broad authority over a former president's tax returns. "A long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries.

Chief Justice John Roberts effectively paused the dispute on Nov. 1, preventing the committee from obtaining Trump's returns while the court considered the matter. House Democrats have said they need to see Trump's tax returns to assess whether the Internal Revenue Service is properly auditing presidential returns and to gauge whether new legislation is needed. The committee's purpose is "exposing President Trump's tax information to the public for the sake of exposure," the lawyers added. The committee in its request invoked a federal law that empowers its chairman to seek any person's tax returns from the IRS. "A long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries.

☆ Chief Justice Roberts temporarily blocks release of Trump's tax records to House Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lawrencehurley_Pic.Jpg | Lawrence Hurley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a congressional committee from accessing former President Donald Trump’s tax records. Tax returns are confidential under federal law, but there are some exceptions, one of which allows the chairman of the committee to request them. The legal battle began in April 2019, when Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., the chairman of the committee, asked for Trump’s returns and those of related business entities. Democrats have been calling for Trump to release his tax returns ever since the 2016 presidential campaign. While no law requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns, it has become the norm for both Democrats and Republicans to do so.

☆ Supreme Court temporarily blocks Congress from getting Trump income tax returns
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining years of federal income tax returns of former President Donald Trump from the IRS. Roberts' order came a day after Trump's lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking the delay. A federal judge previously ordered the IRS to hand over Trump's tax returns to the committee, which has said it wants them as part of a probe of how the agency audits presidential tax returns. Trump had appealed that order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit but lost that effort. Last week, the full appeals court denied Trump's request to reconsider the case, leading to his emergency application asking the Supreme Court to intervene.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a congressional committee from accessing his tax records as a long-running legal battle reaches its final stage. The appeals court's decision not to reconsider its ruling means the tax returns will be disclosed if the Supreme Court does not immediately intervene. Democrats have been calling for Trump to release his tax returns ever since the 2016 presidential campaign. While no law requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns but it has become the norm for both Democrats and Republicans to do so. Most recently, the court on Oct. 13 rejected Trump’s request that a special master be allowed to review classified papers seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence.

☆ Trump asks Supreme Court to block Congress getting his tax returns
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a judge's order that the IRS give years of his tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee later this week. But the lawyers also said the Supreme Court could consider Monday's filing itself a request to hear the case. A Supreme Court case challenging the order could take months or longer to resolve. That committee has sought Trump's tax records and those of related business entities as part of an investigation of how the Internal Revenue Service audits presidential tax returns. The IRS, which is a division of the Treasury Department, is legally mandated to audit the annual tax returns of sitting presidents.

☆ Chief Justice John Roberts defends the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, describes the past year as 'difficult in many respects'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

John Roberts stood in the defense of the Supreme Court's legitimacy during a Friday speech, per CNN. Roberts said the legitimacy of the court shouldn't be questioned due to disagreements on rulings. The high court during its previous term voted to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The chief justice said that the past year had been "difficult in many respects," but added that he and his colleagues were aiming to advance past previous challenges. Earlier this year, Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court, becoming the high court's first Black female jurist in its 233-year history.

☆ Supreme Court Allows Publication of Pentagon Papers - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2016-06-30 | by ( David W. Dunlap | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Joyful editors in New York ordered the immediate resumption of publication, which had been on pause since June 15, under court order. The Times had managed to print three installments of the series, which it called the “Vietnam Archive,” before the government effectively shut it down, leaving much of the exposé unpublished. Credit... Barton Silverman/The New York TimesWhat distinguished the Pentagon Papers was that The Times was not only providing interpretive articles, but also presenting the documents themselves, which had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who had worked on the history. These included cablegrams, memorandums, drafts of policy papers, instructions, transcripts and the like. “The documents are the written words of the men who set the armies in motion and launched the warplanes,” Neil Sheehan, the chief reporter of the series, said.

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