03/24/2022

Trump Lawyer Urges Court to Block House from Getting Tax Returns

A congressional committee is arguing it has the right to force their release

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers brought his years-long battle to keep his tax returns out of the public eye to a U.S. appeals court on Thursday, where a congressional committee argued it had the right to force their release.

The tax-writing House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee asserted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that it has the power to obtain the former president's tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), part of the Treasury Department.

Senior Judge David Sentelle, a conservative jurist, expressed skepticism's of Trump's arguments during the hearing.

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