Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a Democratic-led House committee from obtaining years of Trump’s federal income tax returns.
Former President Donald Trump secured a win on Tuesday when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked a Democratic-led House committee from obtaining years of his federal income tax returns.
But the Court also dealt a blow to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Trump ally, by refusing to block a subpoena calling for his testimony before a Georgia grand jury later this month.
Roberts‘ decision on Tuesday is the newest development in a yearslong effort by the House Ways and Means Committee to obtain the former president’s tax returns. The committee’s chair, Democratic Representative Richard Neal of Massachusetts, sparked years of litigation when he first requested in 2019 that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hand over copies of Trump’s returns as part of a probe into how that service handles presidential audits.
