Judge puts new hold on Democrats' lawsuit seeking Trump tax returns

A federal judge on Friday issued a stay of House Democrats' lawsuit aimed at obtaining President Trump's tax returns, after an appeals court agreed to rehear a different case that touches on some of the same legal issues.

Judge Trevor McFadden, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., and a Trump appointee, said in a court filing that the tax-return case is on hold "pending further order of this Court."

McFadden had initially put the case on hold in January, until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in a separate lawsuit over House Democrats' subpoena of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Late last month, a three-judge panel for the appeals court issued an opinion finding that House Democrats didn't have standing to sue to enforce the McGahn subpoena.

House Democrats asked the full D.C. Circuit to rehear the McGahn case, and the court has agreed to do so.

The House's tax-return lawsuit includes one count stemming from Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal's (D-Mass.) subpoenas to the Treasury Department and IRS for Trump's tax returns, and seven counts stemming from Neal's request for the tax returns under a section of the federal tax code.

At a hearing earlier this month, McFadden asked Democrats if they would be willing to drop their subpoena enforcement claim in light of the three-judge ruling in the McGahn case, and instead just focus on their other claims. In a document filed after the hearing, House lawyers said that they wanted to push forward on both claims involving subpoena enforcement and the tax code section.

The DemonShits want those return for one totally evil purpose: to try to destroy PDJT and his entire family by going after every person and/or business identified therein, destroying that person or business, and thereby destroying the entire Trump family.

This could not be done without the support of “the media,” and “the media” can only do that, unanimously, because of the fraudulent NY Times v. Sullivan decision.

It’s a fraud because it is based on the claim that

". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”

The claim that the First Amendment touched libel law at all was novel in 1964 - for the simple reason that the Bill of Rights was designed to assure that no rights would be diminished under the Constitution. "The” freedom of the press was freedom as it existed, and as it was limited, in 1788. Not unlimited freedom.

“The media” is actually the journalism cartel, which is the inevitable result of the virtual meetings of all major journalists which have been going on since memory of living man runneth not to the contrary. I refer to the wire services in general and the AP in particular.

The wire services are a Nineteenth Century solution to a Nineteenth Century problem - how to propagate the news nationwide while conserving expensive telegraphy bandwidth. But in the 21st Century bandwidth is dirt cheap - and the wire services have no other function but to maintain the journalism cartel which they created in the first place.

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