President Trump has been fighting a legal battle to have his tax returns sealed from a congressional committee looking to examine the documents. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court has denied without comment the arguments from the Trump legal team and cleared the way for the congressional committee to review the tax returns.
The decision rendered by the justices now means the Treasury Department can turn over the past six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The court, with no recorded dissents, did not give a reason for denying the request to withhold the tax returns, which is common in emergency applications such as this.
Democrats in Congress have been seeking the tax returns for years which they claim will help the effectiveness of a annual presidential audit, however, Trump has argued that the Democrats are only seeking the tax returns as a fishing expedition with political implications.
This ruling is absolutely ridiculous! We know the the Democrats in Congress are on a fictitous witch hunt. They have not done their duty as detailed in the Constitution. For almost 6 years they have attempted to destroy each and every Republican who has been elected by the people or appointed by the President. They even manufactured, illegally, a fictitous Russian scheme to claim that the 2016 election was invalid and illegally swayed against their candidate. Nobody I know has any respect for the Congressional Democrats. In fact we would like to see each of them investigated and put in prison for the crime THEY have committed. Their malfesance as Congress ppeople is shameful. There was no investigation of Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden or any of the persons involved in the Russian hoax. I’ve been involved with the Democratic and the Republican party and seen the internal machinations that each pparty uses to sway voters. I was in a Democratic caucous when Ppresident Carter was first running for President. Two men tried to tell us who we had to vote for. We totally disagreed with them and we eventually had to call the police to get them ejected from the meeting. I was part of a group seeking to depose our County Attorney mainly for his inactions while in office. A lady volunteered to help us and she became part of our inner circle. A few days later our local paper ran a story denigrating our candidate. The article was the result of lies told to a reporter by the same woman who had joined our group. Both of those incidents were engineered by the Democratic party. I never encountered anything like that when I caucused for a Republican. Different people supporting their choice for the Republican nominee made speeches praising their choice. However, no one attempted to force us to choose their candidate. I heartily dislike all efforts that each party uses to help us select their favorite candidate. I would change our election procedure so that each candidate could receive Federal funding. I require each voter to show a valid picture I.d. to cast a ballot. All in person voting would only be done on election day. The ballots would be counted immediately after the polls closed with no additional boxes of suppposedly uncounted ballots allowed. There would be 3 debates moderated by a completely non-partisan individual without a live audience. Other than the debates only 5 commercials would be allowed on television – all occurring within 3 weeks of the election. Each polling place would be run by an equal number of Democrats and Republicans. The counting of the ballots would occur completely under the guise of both parties and functioning video cameras would completely cover the entire sealed room. When the counting was finished the count would be signed by both parities and only then would the room be unlocked. No radios or phones would allowed in that room at any time. The ballots would be removed by a single member of each party and custody would be maintained until the ballots entered the counting room.
So all republicans good, all dems bad… really? This is a tired right-wing narrative that prevents policy discussion and legitimate, positive change. It is treating politics like a sporting event. This type of attitude leads only to divisiveness and government gridlock. Which is apparently the republican agenda! They have made it well known that government is the enemy… the less government the better… in fact, who needs government?? Just trust the wealthy elites to do the right thing, eliminate all taxes and regulations, take responsibility and pull yourself up by your bootstraps! The reality is that without the modern democratic party there would be no social safety nets AT ALL in this country, no workplace safety, no child labor laws, no minimum wage. All of the things that government does that benefits American workers was brought to you by the democratic party.
Hillary clinton sat for 11 HOURS and testified before the benghazi commission. Was the intent to actually discover new information related to a terrorist attack, or was it a smear job against a potential presidential candidate? And did you forget that her husband bill was impeached for a bl0w j0b? Real national security stuff there, huh? The R’s just wanted to make him look bad, shame him. No benefit to the American public.
The house is in the hands of republicans now, so get your investigation committees ready for the bidens. When you fail to discover any wrongdoing, then you can let the American people know just how much of their money was wasted on nothing.
Besides, what’s the problem here. Trump himself said he would release all of his tax returns once they were done being audited. Just like he’d have a healthcare plan in two weeks, ha! But I tell ya, that darned audit never seems to end! What is he hiding? Why is it such a problem that his taxes are revealed? He’s been pushing really, REALLY hard to keep them under wraps… I wonder why? I guess we’ll all find out soon enough LOL.
If you’re advocating getting money out of politics, then I am with you. We’d have to get congress to add a constitutional amendment to overturn the citizens united ruling, or get states to pass their own election laws limiting how campaigns are funded. If you want all voters to present IDs, then the IDs will need to be free and easy to access. In-person only voting on election day might require extended hours and additional locations, as well as a national holiday. However, there is simply no proof of mass voter fraud. Never has been! Sure, some dudes in florida voted twice for trump, some felons are told they can vote then get arrested… it’s just not a national conspiracy. Provide the proof, then tell me what needs to change. If there was such massive fraud happening, then why did dems allow the republicans to get the house? You really just gotta think about these things. They begin to make sense when you try using logic and reasoning. I know you FEEL like the election had major problems, but the FACTS don’t care about your feelings.