Posted on 05/22/2019 10:12:09 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The Internal Revenue Service has no choice but to honor congressional requests for President Trump’s tax returns unless he invokes executive privilege to protect them, according to a draft legal memo written by career swamp bureaucrat hacks.
There. Fixed it.
So, who, specifically, wrote this memo? A name please.
the Midget Judge Napolitano
It isn't. But look at this from LINK: 26 USC 6103: Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information (closed executive sessions can be leaked I think).
(f) Disclosure to Committees of Congress
(1) Committee on Ways and Means, Committee on Finance, and Joint Committee on Taxation
Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request, except that any return or return information which can be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer shall be furnished to such committee only when sitting in closed executive session unless such taxpayer otherwise consents in writing to such disclosure.
Someone should tell Nadler and Pelosi that Congressional “oversight” of the Executive Branch does NOT mean “power over” the CO-EQUAL “Executive Branch”.
More specifically, they should be told that “oversight” also does NOT mean “power to conduct witch-hunts and fishing expeditions against employees of the Executive Branch.
And they should be told that “oversight” does NOT mean “power to create “kangaroo courts” to indict, prosecute and JUDGE political enemies WITHOUT actually “impeaching” them.
Unlike “impeachment”, “kangaroo courts” do NOT ensure that the “accused” has the right to cross-examine the accusers and the right to prevent “hearsay evidence” from being presented at the trial. THAT is why “kangaroo Courts” are illegal.
And THAT is why Pelosi, Nadler and other Dems WANT them.
Top Democrat’s wife may have gained ‘illegal private benefit’ from his committee activities
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3750886/posts
I find it interesting that absolutely every document associated with Obama was sealed my executive privilege but absolutely nothing of President Trump’s past is privileged.
And it's STILL the responsiblity of the taxpeasant, in the end...
They should be beaten first, don't forget.
Trump needs to assert his personal Amendment IV rights against unreasonable searchs.
Trump needs to seek an injunction against these Democratic witch hunts.
I was thinking: Even if 26 USC 6103 (see above) is constitutional, why couldn't Mnuchin send a severely redacted version?
The only thing, the ONLY thing, that is going to make these maggots back off and crawl back under their rocks (or back into their closets) is fear.
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Disagree. They are terrified at the moment and their response is to triple down at top volume.
The only thing that is going to make these maggots back off and crawl back under their rocks (or back into their closets) are successful prosecutions and appropriate punishments PLUS becoming an insignificant political party.
IOW: UNRELENTING PAIN.
In the end, everything the dems subpoena will be enforced by these judges.
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All of whom are subject to the review of higher courts.
It is just smoke screens and delaying tactics.
Laugh at them.
Well I’m talking about executive privilege. Just because they aren’t protected by executive privilege doesn’t mean they can get them any more than they can get yours. They need a search warrant to get yours. They should need a search warrant to get his.
.... According to the 4th amendment. Which means that 26 USC 6103, stating that Animal House can demand ANY federal tax return without a warrant, may be unconstitutional, but apparently that's what they are leaning on.
Report-Taxpayer-Confidentiality-2010 - U.S. Treasurey Department
History starts on p15.
Google search: federal income tax returns - confidentiality vs. public disclosure
First hit should be a Yale Law School Law Review article by Boris Bittker.
Your property tax is a public record.
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