Supreme Court Rules On Trump’s Tax Returns Appeal

Former President Donald Trump scored a major victory in his ongoing fight with Congress over his tax returns.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted a temporary block on the Democrat led House getting the former president’s tax returns, Fox News reported.

Trump and his legal team on Monday filed asking the Supreme Court to block the release of his tax records.

The House Ways and Means Committee first requested six years of Trump’s tax returns in 2019.

“Upon consideration of the application of counsel for the applicants, it is so ordered that the mandate of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, case No. 21-5289, is hereby stayed pending further order of the undersigned or of the court,” the decision said, giving a deadline of Thursday, Nov. 10, by noon.

Last week an appeals court decided to deny the former president’s appeal to keep the records from Congress. But that left the possibility that the case was going to be appealed to the Supreme, Fox News reported.

The House Ways and Means Committee first requested six years of Trump’s tax returns in 2019, but then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied the effort. After President Biden was elected, the Department of Justice said in July 2021 that Congress should be able to review the records, which Trump appealed. 

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ruled last December that the Treasury Department should turn the tax returns over to the congressional committee, and a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with that ruling in August. The full bench of the D.C. Circuit Court denied Trump’s request to stop the release on Thursday. 

Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday described how she believes the situation involving former President Donald Trump’s testimony before the House Jan. 6 Committee, which she co-chairs, will play out in the coming weeks.

In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” the Wyoming Republican — who is leaving office in January after getting trounced in an August primary by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman — first responded to a question from host Chuck Todd about what the committee will do if the former president doesn’t produce requested documents by a Nov. 4 deadline.

“We are anticipating that the former president will understand his legal obligation and will comply with the subpoena,” Cheney said.

Fox News adds:

The subpoena deals with Trump’s supposed role in what the committee called in an accompanying letter a “multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power.” In addition to physical records, the committee is calling for Trump to appear on November 14 for a deposition under oath so that he can face questions about the events that led to the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.

“We’ve made clear in the subpoena a number of things, including that if he intends to take the Fifth, he ought to alert us of that ahead of time,” Cheney said.

Trump is considering choosing Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as his 2024 running mate, according to New York Times Magazine journalist Robert Draper.

During an interview on the Daily Beast’s “The New Abnormal” podcast, Draper claimed the “discussions have been ongoing for months” and alleged that “Trump has toyed with the idea of selecting Greene to join his ticket since February of this year.”

“It’s been discussed repeatedly,” he said, per the Daily Beast. “Now, to be fair, I mean, how many of these conversations has Trump had with other people?”

Draper said that Greene is being considered by Trump because she has been “unflaggingly loyal” to him throughout. “What is Trump concerned about most of all in a VP after the Mike Pence experience? Loyalty?” he added.

“He has every reason to expect that Greene would be by his side and would be his proximate warrior,” the journalist added.

Earlier this week, Greene told Draper that she’s discussed with Trump the possibility of serving as his running mate. She said she would be “honored” to serve, but added that the GOP establishment would not want it.

“I think the last person that the RNC or the national party wants is me as his running mate,” she told Draper.