Trump tells court he will appeal yesterday's court ruling that would allow the House to obtain his tax returns
Overnight, Trump's attorneys told the court they would appeal.The decision stems from the case initially brought by House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal against the Treasury Department under the Trump administration, when the department rebuffed his request for the returns under a law that allows disclosure of an individual's tax returns to the committee.
I am pleased that we're now one step closer to being able to conduct more thorough oversight of the IRS's mandatory presidential audit program."In Tuesday's opinion, McFadden said that the former President was"wrong on the law," as a"long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries.""Even the special solicitude accorded former Presidents does not alter the outcome," McFadden wrote.
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