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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSensenbrenner just opened the door to obtain trumps tax returns!
His insistence that shall offered no wiggle room and obliged the party to provide info per the statute
That certainly applies to the recent attempt to obtain those tax returns!
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Sensenbrenner just opened the door to obtain trumps tax returns! (Original Post)
Roland99
Jul 2019
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marble falls
(57,013 posts)1. A bit of a stretch, but I'd take it.
FBaggins
(26,721 posts)2. There's always "wiggle room"
Clear statutory language helps of course, but the other side can still challenge whether the law applies to the president at all, whether congress had the authority to give itself that power in the first place, whether congress acted in this specific case within their powers, that the law as applied lacks due-process protections... and on and on and on.
TheRealNorth
(9,470 posts)3. Barr's Justice Dept. has department has determined
that shall means a different thing if you are a Democrat.
UTUSN
(70,648 posts)4. An aside, he's a.k.a. "Tex" - his family fortune came from the invention of Kotex & he hates it!1
Hates being called Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex. Tex.