Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House

[brooklynite]

Source: 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.

The case is the most direct way for the House to obtain Trump’s federal tax returns after pursuing them in different avenues for years.

The Trump team wants the Supreme Court to put the release of the tax returns on pause while the justices consider whether to take up a case reviewing the lower court rulings okaying their disclosure.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Can Ginni and her proxy Clarence come to the rescue on this one? (nt)

[brooklynite]

3. An Administrative Stay is not interference...

...It's an Administrative move pending a decision by the entire Court. Which (I'll say it again) has not shown itself to be "pro-Trump".

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. You're reading a lot into my question, which I asked because I know you know a lot about this stuff

Just curious if one Justice can just put this on hold like we saw last week. There is pretty clearly at least 1 Justice who is pro-Trump IMHO.

And perhaps more importantly, how long would the stay ... last?

[brooklynite]

5. The Justice who oversees the District in which the suit was filed can do so...

...but they can't arbitrarily rule on the underlying case.

The stay remains until the Court adjudicates the case (which is frequently quite quick in the case of Trump lawsuits...)

[republianmushroom]

2. Why not just comply Donald, if you have done nothing wrong.

He will want to take the 5th.

[LudwigPastorius]

6. He's still waiting for that "audit" to conclude.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Didn't pay any tax but accumulated a so-called vast net worth.

How'd he do dat?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. TFG should just rent a room in the SCOTUS building.

God knows he spends a lot of time there as he tries to avoid someone -- anyone -- from discovering the truth about his finances. Maybe Ginni can bring him a home cooked meal every now and then.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. I thought we were going to release them 6 fucking years ago, you lying SOS. nt

[sakabatou]

10. When does TFG ever tell the truth?