SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Congress From Getting Trump’s Tax Returns

The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1 temporarily blocked Congress from obtaining former President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

Chief Justice John Roberts stayed an appeals court order that had ruled a congressional panel could gain access to the documents.

Trump filed an emergency application on Monday to the Supreme Court, asking it to halt the order.

Roberts’ stay is temporary, pending further developments in the case.

Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, has for years been trying to obtain Trump’s returns, asserting that they are necessary as the panel considers possibly updating how audits of presidents are done.

Trump said that the true purpose is to release the returns to the public.

Neal is not seeking the records of any other president, and has said that “unraveling President Trump’s sophisticated tax avoidance” was one of the reasons he thought Trump should release his returns.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said in 2017 that the returns would “be useful” in investigating “what … the Russians have on Donald Trump” and that investigations into Trump were going to continue in 2019 because she “want[ed] to see him in prison.”

Trump sued the IRS and its parent agency, the Department of Treasury, in 2019 to stop officials from giving his returns to Neal.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, threw out the lawsuit in 2021, finding that federal law “requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries” and that the presidential audit program could be subject to legislation.

“That conclusion all but decides the Court’s analysis,” McFadden said, even as statements from Neal and Pelosi “plausibly show mixed motives underlying the” request for the returns.

In October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the ruling. U.S. Circuit Judge David Sentelle, a Reagan appointee writing for the three-judge panel, said the court could not probe the motives of legislators and that Neal “has identified a legitimate legislative purpose that it requires information to accomplish.”

Roberts ordered Neal and other respondents, including the IRS, to respond to Trump’s application on or before Nov. 10 by noon.

A spokesperson for Neal did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Roberts received the application because he oversees the District of Columbia appeals court.

Roberts can decide on the application himself or refer the matter to the full Supreme Court. – from an Epoch Tmes article

The more logical returns would be to get Obama’s, Clinton’s and/or Biden’s returns as they were not multi-millionaires when entering office but came out very well off, hints strongly of corruption.

Biden Declares War

In an address to the nation on Thursday night, Sep 1, 2022, Joe Biden said: “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault.  We do ourselves no favor to pretend othewise.  There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.  And that is a threat to this country.”

Biden’s Twitter account followed up with a post saying that Trump and his “MAGA Republicans are a threat to this very country.”  Whether that was Biden or his handlers who posted that doesn’t matter.  It is a rather interesting accusation based on the very dark and sinister stage setting he had for his 1941-esq hate-filled speech which amounted to an attack on at least half of the American people.

Can someone please tell me exactly when it became unAmerican to question the results of an election?  As I recall, it was cool in 2016.  Was it right after election day 2020?

U.S. President #45 has accurately stated, “Joe doesn’t want to make America great again.”

“Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!  If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through [his] words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should be representing the United States of America!” – Donald J Trump

Trump White House Aide Stephen Miller said, “President Trump poured out his heart, his soul, his spirit everyday to build a  better America for everyone to build a safer and more prosperous America.  While Democrats and deep state launched an illegal operation to take him out and it is now in its sixth year.”

Miller added that Biden “gave the speech of a dictator, in the style of a dictator, in the visual of a dictator, using the words of a dictator.  This was his enemies of the state speech. And like every other radical, Marxist tyrant, he accused his opponents of being fascist while he engages in oppressive authoritarian behavior.

“He’s the one who’s forcing Americans against their will to take a vaccine.

“He’s the one who has violated our nation’s Constitution to open our borders.

“He’s the one who is interfering in the sacred relationship between parent and child to try to force dangerous medicine, puberty blockers, hormones, on our little kids.”

Trump added: “If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force.  He must be insane or suffering from late-stage dementia!”

Biden’s handlers, on Friday, sent old Joe out to walk back what he said on Thursday after the overnight polls showed the speech didn’t play well and the blowback was not going as expected.  The speech was somewhat reminiscent of Hillary’s deplorable speech.  At least she didn’t make a statement like “you have AR-15s, we have F-15s” the way Biden did.

Conclusion:  Joe is correct about one thing, our democracy [sic] is under assault but that assault is coming from the fascistic wannabe dictator, Joe Biden and his handlers as well as Sen Schumer and Pelosi and other likeminded Democrats and RINOs whose lust for power obviously knows no boundaries.

The Corrupt Ones

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We can no longer ignore the corruption in DC; if we don’t push back and do our part to clean up the mess it will soon be too late.

An FBI official says that they don’t want to influence an election as they did in 2016 with HRC conducting government business on an illegal unsecured server by refusing to do anything. Yet, they pursued the Russian Collusion Delusion and supported other attacks on Trump leading to impeachment attempts. They have pretty much ignored the Biden laptop scheme and reveal nothing of what they’re doing. They attempt to label parents concerned about what their children are being taught as terrorists.
Over 1 12 years after Trump left office and mere months before the midterm elections, they raid Trumps home with questionable tactics.
But they don’t want their tactics to influence elections. Yeah right; nope, I ain’t buying that bridge.