Yeah; shouldn't that 'audit' have been completed by now?The Dems are just helping Trump fulfill a 5 year old promise to release his tax returns.
It must be longest audit in IRS historyYeah; shouldn't that 'audit' have been completed by now?
For an honest accounting to the American people.I actually don't think the Dems should continue fighting for his tax returns. For what purpose at this point? It looks very politically motivated. Let the Cyrus Vance deal with it criminally in NY State.
What was my point?
Here you go: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/index.html
And: https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1419111/download
Feel free to enlighten me. Be sure to use citations to relevant authorities.
That the legal thinking you cited applied in the current environment
Again, your link talked about whether Congressional committees can force the Executive Branch to disclose the tax information without satisfying the constitutional requirement that the information could serve a legitimate legislative purpose.
"The committees, however, cannot compel the Executive Branch to disclose such information without satisfying the constitutional requirement that the information could serve a legitimate legislative purpose."
Now feel free to explain how the above position applies if Biden simply orders the Eexcutive branch to surrender the tax info to the committee because if Biden decides to play hardball and issues such order, then there is not an issue of "compelling the Executive Branch" to do anything. Both the Executive and the Legislative Branches will be in agreement that Trump's taxes must be disclosed to the Committee
The "legal thinking" I cited is the very analysis that the administration did for itself to reach the conclusion that it can disclose Trump's returns to Congress without violating the law. It essentially amounts to nearly three dozen pages of argument to establish that the "legitimate legislative purpose" requirement is met in this case. Biden can't just "play hardball" and issue an order to disclose them without meeting the requirements of the statutory exception to the presumptive confidentiality obligation imposed on the IRS. If he did so, he's be ordering someone to commit a felony.
So I don't know what else to tell you.
Again, you ignore the context of this analysis.
It talks about "compelling" the Executive branch. So, you still have not explained what happens when both the Executive Branch and the Legislative Committee are in agreement. Again, you confuse the fact that Biden plays nice and does not want to appear that he is pushing for revealing the Trump taxes with the legal requirements that exist t EVEN when Biden an the Committee are on the same page which can happen after Biden makes an executive decision to have its Treasury Department give the tax info to the committee.
Biden can't just "play hardball" and issue an order to disclose them without meeting the requirements of the statutory exception to the presumptive confidentiality obligation imposed on the IRS. If he did so, he's be ordering someone to commit a felony.
Ugh, I already answered this. Here, let me quote it for you again, since you didn't read it.
Disclosing confidential tax documents is a felony unless it fits one of the enumerated exceptions. Thus the 40-page memo explaining why they think there is a legitimate legislative purpose for disclosing them to Congress in order to qualify for one of the exceptions.
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