Trump has so many legal issues to keep track of how does he have time to be a real president? It's a good thing he is a stable genius with a huge brain.
Trump sues to block New York law allowing Congress to get his state taxes
"Trump sues to block Congress subpoena for his financial records"
The president contends that Democrats are trying to embarrass him politically by revealing person financial info.
IMAGE - President Trump broke with tradition by refusing to release his tax returns as a candidate or as president.Alastair Pike / AFP - Getty Images
July 24, 2019, 5:03 AM GMT+10 / Updated July 24, 2019, 5:48 AM GMT+10
By Allan Smith
President Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his state tax returns through a newly passed New York law.
The president's lawyers said the state law was nothing more than an effort to get information about his personal finances to embarrass him politically.
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The lawsuit asserts that the law, called the TRUST Act, violates Trump's First Amendment rights. It seeks to block the Ways and Means Committee from being able to request the taxes through the law, prevent New York Attorney General Letitia James from enforcing it, and stop New York Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Michael Schmidt from complying with any request for Trump's tax filings.
"The House Rules authorize the Committee to oversee 'Federal laws,' not state tax laws," says the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. "And nothing in the House Rules allows the Committee to demand the private financial information of a sitting President."
The president's personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement that the lawsuit was filed as part of "our ongoing efforts to end Presidential harassment."
While vicious, racist, unpresidential harassment by Trump of political opponents is cheered on by his base supporters, proper and diligent attempts by Congress to carry out proper constitutional oversight is labeled by Trump and his minions as harassment of the president. Go figure.
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