Not Above the Law, but for Now, Beyond it: Statement on Trump Taxes Supreme Court Rulings
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 9, 2020 | Contact: Kate Stotesbery 202-225-4865 |
Not Above the Law, but for Now, Beyond it: Statement on Trump Taxes Supreme Court Rulings
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee who vigorously sought congressional action to obtain President Trump's tax returns, released the following statement on the two Supreme Court rulings regarding releasing President Trump's tax returns today:
"Never has a president worked so hard to hide so much. While defeated on his claim that he is above the law, Trump is now beyond the law until after the November election. He may not be able to outrun the law, but he is outrunning the clock—whining all the way. Trump moved quickly to block access by initiating these cases; the House moved slowly to use its specific statutory authority that Treasury Secretary Mnuchin "shall furnish . . . any return or return information specified...." House use of this 1924 statute was not even presented in these cases.
After exhausting every appeal to delay as long as possible, Trump can now continue to deny grand jury and congressional access for probably another year. Ultimately, it is the voters who can hold Trump accountable, but they must do so without the access they deserve to this probable evidence of Trump self-enrichment and other wrongdoing."
Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, Congressman Doggett has pressed for the release of President Trump's tax returns; during the last Congress, Congressman Doggett offered six motions to obtain the President's tax returns, all of which were blocked by Republicans. When offering one of these amendments in the Ways and Means Committee, he asserted that Trump must at least meet the "Nixon standard," since "even Richard Nixon invited the Joint Committee on Taxation to review his tax returns, explaining that ‘people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook."
In a hearing last spring, Congressman Doggett challenged Treasury Secretary Mnuchin regarding his statutory duty to release President Trump's tax returns.
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