A federal judge decided Thursday that a different judge should handle President Donald Trump’s suit to prevent House Democrats from obtaining his New York state tax returns, delaying a decision on the president’s request for a restraining order against the Democrats. Trump’s suit to block Democrats from getting his New York tax returns will be … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his state tax returns through a newly passed New York law. Trump sues to block New York law allowing Congress to get his state taxes: The president’s lawyers said the law was nothing more than an … Read more
What took so damn long? This should have happened weeks ago. Mark Sumner at Daily Kos reports, House files lawsuit demanding Trump’s tax forms: On Tuesday, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, demanding the release of Donald … Read more
Last week the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report that makes it official: the “Trump tax cut bill,” the only legislative achievement of the previous Republican Congress, has not generated any meaningful new economic growth that was not already underway. And the crooks who passed it (above) are laughing all the way to their … Read more
Judge Amit Mehta held a hearing today on the Trump crime family’s attempt to squash a congressional subpoena for the Trump organization’s financial records from Mazars USA, and let’s just say it does not appear to have gone well, as one should expect. The law is clearly on the side of Congress. Ian Millhiser reports Trump’s … Read more