In a 3-0 ruling, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals just dealt another blow to what’s already started off as a very bad week for TFG. The House Ways and Means Committee request to obtain former TFG’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service has just been granted and they expect to have them ‘immediately,’ -hopefully, someone in that agency didn’t lose or scrub them-although the court said the judgment would not issued for seven days, giving Trump time to appeal.
Per CNN:
The majority opinion, written by Circuit Judge David Sentelle, said that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal’s request for the records was within the scope of his committee’s inquiry, and the court also rejected Trump’s argument claiming that the request had a retaliatory motive, making it invalid.
“In this case, the need for the Trump Parties’ information to inform potential legislation overrides the burden to the Executive Branch largely because that burden is so tenuous,” Sentelle, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the opinion.
Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee and Robert Wilkins, an Obama appointee, also agreed with the decision, though Henderson wrote that she believed there should be more scrutiny on a request like this that would have implications for the presidency.
***So, two GOP appointed judges and one of those “Obama judges” all agreed that TFG’s argument fell flat and he’s not special in that as a former president, his records should not be turned over.
