DC court dismisses lawsuit seeking Trump’s tax returns

https://twitter.com/mikebwonder/status/1075092842270375936

The Hill

A three-judge panel on the federal court of appeals in D.C. denied a non-profit’s attempt to force the IRS to release President Trump’s tax returns.

In an unanimous riling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said not all records can be accessed by the public through a Freedom of Information Act request and affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)’s lawsuit, which sought Trump’s income tax records.

“No one can demand to inspect another’s tax records,” Karen LeCraft Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, said in the court’s majority ruling.

“And the IRC [Internal Revenue Code]’s confidentiality protections extend to the ordinary taxpayer and the President alike.”

The law mandates that tax “returns and return information shall be confidential” unless they fall within one of the statute’s narrowly drawn exceptions.

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6 Responses to DC court dismisses lawsuit seeking Trump’s tax returns

  1. About time they stopped beating that poor dead horse…

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  2. auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:

    This next year is going to be rough. Hopefully more judges will step up and judge by the rule by the of law.

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  3. hocuspocus13's avatar hocuspocus13 says:

    …I just cannot imagine that Pelosi and Schumer do not have skeletons in their closets

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