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Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block the IRS from turning several years of Trump’s personal tax returns to the House Committee on Ways & Means.
Trump filed an emergency application asking the nation’s highest court to issue an emergency stay of a DC federal appeals court ruling ordering the former president to turn his tax records over to Congress.
In the filing, Trump accused lawmakers of trying to “expose” his tax information to the public “for the sake of exposure.”
“The Committee’s purpose in requesting President Trump’s tax returns has nothing to do with funding or staffing issues at the IRS and everything to do with releasing the President’s tax information to the public,” the filing said.
The Washington, DC, federal appeals court panel in August cleared the way for the House committee to obtain Trump’s taxes after years of back and forth between the committee and Trump’s lawyers.
DC Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David B. Sentelle wrote that House Democrats’ request for Trump’s returns “did not violate separation of powers principles” and that lawmakers on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee have a legitimate reason to obtain the returns in order to better monitor the IRS’ policy of auditing sitting presidents.
