[AMV] #1017 Marshall Law!

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Op vrijdag 16 december 2022 03:35 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Bannon heeft Trump al lang laten vallen joh. Let op, die gaat binnenkort ook gewoon vol op het DerSantis for 2024 orgel.

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The harder question is whether, as a normative matter, the committee ought to make Trump’s returns public in the waning weeks of the Democratic majority.

On the one hand, Trump’s tax filings should have seen the light of day long ago. Trump should have released his returns voluntarily—as every elected president since Richard Nixon has. The Trump administration should have allowed the IRS to hand the president’s tax returns over to the House Ways and Means Committee when that panel’s chair, Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), requested those documents in April 2019. And the federal judiciary shouldn’t have allowed Trump to stall the release of his returns for three and a half years through litigation.

On the other hand, the Ways and Means Committee has maintained throughout the litigation over Trump’s tax returns—which culminated with last week’s Supreme Court decision—that it is seeking the documents as part of its plan to review the IRS’s presidential audit program. (The presidential audit program is the procedure—mentioned in an IRS manual but not codified in any statute or regulation—by which the IRS examines individual tax returns filed by the president and vice president each year.) Any review of the presidential audit program that starts now and ends when the GOP takes control of the House in January would be slapdash and superficial. If Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee rushed to release Trump’s returns in the lame-duck session—without conducting the comprehensive review of the presidential audit program that they promised—it would look like their stated motive for seeking the documents was indeed, as Trump has alleged, pretextual.

Fortunately, the Senate Finance Committee—which will remain under Democratic leadership in the next Congress—has both the resources and the apparent inclination to conduct the comprehensive review of the presidential audit program that House Democrats initially set out to undertake. So even if the House Ways and Means Committee doesn’t release Trump’s tax returns this month, the likely consequence is not that Trump’s returns will remain under wraps forever. The Senate Finance Committee will be able to obtain the returns itself, and that committee then can release return information that is relevant to its review of the presidential audit program.

Full disclosure: I’ve been advocating for the release of President Trump’s tax information since April 2017, when I suggested in a Washington Post op-ed and a Yale Law Journal Forum article that New York could enact a law requiring the release of Trump’s state tax filings. I’ve advised state lawmakers in New York on strategies to make Trump’s tax returns public. I’ve criticized House Ways and Means Chairman Neal for acting too slowly to obtain Trump’s returns. So I’m no apologist for Trump’s tax secrecy.

Still, it’s important that Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee remain true to their word. Chairman Neal said his committee needed Trump’s tax returns to evaluate the extent to which the IRS audits and enforces federal tax laws against the president. To turn around now and release Trump’s returns—outside the context of a thorough evaluation of the IRS’s presidential audit program—would make the stated rationale look much like a head fake. That would seem especially gratuitous given that the Senate Finance Committee stands ready, willing, and able to carry out its own review of the presidential audit program.

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Op zaterdag 17 december 2022 00:28 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Maar die afweging of iemand een criminele baas is, is niet aan zo’n committeetje, maar uiteindelijk aan de rechter. Je stelt imho echt een heel raar precedent om ogenschijnlijk zonder basis die documenten maar vrij te geven. Misschien dat er wel een legitiem publiek doel gediend mee zou zijn, maar dat zie ik op dit moment niet.