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Supreme Court divided over fight for Trump's financial records
The Hill ^ | 05/12/20 02:53 PM EDT | JOHN KRUZEL

Posted on 05/12/2020 2:05:49 PM PDT by robowombat

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To: robowombat

The libs have asserted that DJT has committed a crime, FALSELY, repeatedly. There is no law that mandates the release of tax history. Let them start there. Pass a law instead of going fishing for a potential crime with no evidence to obtain a warrantless search.


21 posted on 05/12/2020 3:39:48 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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“You made the point, which we have made, that presidents can't be treated just like an ordinary citizen,” Kagan said. “But it's also true, and indeed a fundamental precept of our constitutional order, that the president isn't above the law.”

Nice try Kagen. What law do you allege Trump thinks he's above? The House has no evidence of a crime being committed. Without evidence of a crime, on what basis is the House entitled to a private citizen's tax returns, much less a President's.

22 posted on 05/12/2020 3:47:25 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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”… while liberal justices aired concerns about placing unduly restrictive limits on lawmakers."

Lawmakers want to have a look at PDJT’s taxes undoubtedly to make sure that he has never paid taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. /sarc

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!

Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.

Remember in November!


23 posted on 05/12/2020 3:50:14 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Pete Dovgan

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

If he does have to give up his tax records, can tax records from swamp dwellers also be disclosed? They better be careful what they ask for. From what I can see there are a LOT of gaters out there.


24 posted on 05/12/2020 3:54:13 PM PDT by GTM01
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John Kruzel [The Hill] wrote:

In both of the cases argued Tuesday, Trump lost every round of the battle in the lower courts.

But John Kruzel failed to write exactly why Trump lost every round of the lower court battles. Even though John Roberts has said that the Federal courts are not political, they are.

Case 1, Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP was consolidated with Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG.

Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP

Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG

Case 2, Trump v. Vance

As we can see, these cases have been decided politically, by Clinton and Obama political operatives on the Federal courts.

Apparently, DNC political operative John Kruzel did not see that.

25 posted on 05/12/2020 4:21:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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The same statute that permits Congress to seek tax returns also empowers the President to seek tax returns.

Here’s hoping if he loses, Trump immediately requests the tax returns for the last 10 years of every SC justice, the obamas, every member of the Russia cabal, every democrat congress member, the democrat nut Vance in NY, along with every angry eneMedia member- for the last 10 years.

26 posted on 05/12/2020 4:35:37 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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Here’s hoping if he loses, Trump immediately requests the tax returns for the last 10 years of every SC justice, the obamas, every member of the Russia cabal, every democrat congress member, the democrat nut Vance in NY, along with every angry eneMedia member- for the last 10 years.

In that event, Trump would be unsuccessful since the courts would then rule that Trump's request would not have any legitimate purpose. Courts are controlled by the liberals.

27 posted on 05/12/2020 5:03:50 PM PDT by damper99
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Roberts will side with the left. They own him. He is allowed to vote with the right sometimes when it’s not that important but on all the big issues he is reliably on the left. This is a biggie to them.


28 posted on 05/12/2020 5:14:31 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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I think trump should leak them. He says there accurate. He doesn’t do them anyway. Plus he said they are volumes full. That should keep them from screwing up the country for awhile.


29 posted on 05/12/2020 5:34:13 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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Have we seen Obama’s college transcripts, or birth certificate?
I didn’t think so.


30 posted on 05/12/2020 5:44:28 PM PDT by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: robowombat

Concurrently release SCOTUS tax records.


31 posted on 05/12/2020 6:36:01 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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I read through the entre transcript yesterday. It would appear to me that the biggest sticking point for the non-liberal justices is that there is apparently no limit the plaintiffs could come up with to the amount of harassment that the decision they are asking for would generate. Kavenaugh actually mentioned congress digging around for evidence of jaywalking.

Of course, given the setting, none of the justices or attorneys came right out and said how obviously political this entire case is. It is obvious from the breadth of the information request that they are looking for an unlimited way to dig for dirt in the president’s past. Doesn’t have to be illegal, or even immoral. All they want is something that they can drag out that will produce bad optics for the president. I’m quite sure they could find something, especially with the complexity of modern tax law. They’d find something that is pretty much standard practice that they could drag out and say, “look at this!”


32 posted on 05/13/2020 6:30:52 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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