Posted on 05/09/2019 3:23:32 AM PDT by reaganaut1
If Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege are a threat to the Constitution, as his critics now claim, what are we to make of the unprecedented bill of attainder against Mr. Trump now moving through the New York Legislature? Every President in memory has claimed executive privilege, but New York Democrats want to hand over the state tax returns of one man, the U.S. President, to Congress.
Our friends at the New York Sun call this an act of “constitutional nihilism,” and they’re not overstating the point. Encouraged by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Joe Biden man, the Albany Democrats are poised to pass legislation that would let the state tax commissioner release Mr. Trump’s tax return to one of three Congressional committees.
The Democrats figure they can thus leap in a single bound over the battle now taking place in Washington between Mr. Trump and the House Ways and Means Committee over Mr. Trump’s federal returns. They’re also leaping over the Constitution.
The Albany Democrats claim they aren’t targeting Mr. Trump because their bill would let the tax commissioner release any individual’s New York tax return to Congress. This is hardly consolation. Mr. Cuomo and such altar boys as former Gov. Eliot Spitzer would have the power to turn over the returns of any political enemy. And once in the hands of Congress, they might as well be posted on Broadway.
Yet everyone knows that the immediate target here is one man, Mr. Trump. The rest is political cover. Why write the law now if not to assist Washington Democrats in harassing the President they loathe?
The ban on bills of attainder—laws targeting an individual—is as clear a constitutional principle as any in the great American charter.
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If the left would do this to the president of the United States, imagine what they would do to a member of the huddled masses if he or she were to get in their way.
While the left keeps harping on the tax returns and complaining that Trump has broken with a 40 year tradition, can they please explain exactly what the tax return is supposed to show?
The more the Donks attack President Trump unfairly, the more America will support him.
KEEP IT UP DONKS!
The lefty lewzers are assuring President Trump his second term.
I love it!
So much winning!
Hopefully that one will end up in the courts and double hopefully there are at least a few honest judges left in New York to strike it down. I know...New York, so looking for honest judges it’s asking a lot. But hope, so I’m told, springs eternal.
Hope trump sees Cuomo as enemy number one when we take back the house and hold the senate and the presidency. He is a true scumbag
“imagine what they would do to a member of the huddled masses if he or she were to get in their way.”
They’d start killing us.
See tag line.
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HARRASSMENT by the ASSES! It’s what ALL DEMS do....DESTROY DECENT PEOPLE!
...He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance...
Deep State makes George III and Parliament look like pikers.
Not just the Dems, Ann.
Yes.
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