I had a jack-in-the-box. I would turn, and turn, and turn, and that jack...
...he never jumped.
Posted on 06/15/2019 6:28:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) hammered the Justice Department on Friday over a legal opinion it wrote backing the Treasury Department’s defiance of a House subpoena for President Trump’s tax returns.
“What is the President hiding in his tax returns? And since when does 'shall' mean 'unless it displeases Trump?'" the House Intelligence Committee chairman tweeted late Friday.
"And, perhaps more importantly: What will be left of DOJ’s independence and reputation for impartial justice after Barr? The answer? Very little,” he added.
Schiff's comments came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released a legal opinion backing up Treasury's decision to reject a request by congressional Democrats for six years of Trump's tax returns.
The opinion followed after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month rejected a subpoena from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) demanding Trump's personal and business tax returns from 2013 through 2018.
Neal had sought Trump's tax returns through a provision of the federal tax code that states that the Treasury secretary "shall furnish" tax returns sought by the chairs of Congress's tax committees if the documents are viewed in a closed session.
However, both the Justice and Treasury Departments say Neal’s request is political in nature and believe his intent is to publish the tax returns.
“No one could reasonably believe that the Committee seeks six years of President Trump’s tax returns because of a newly discovered interest in legislating on the presidential-audit process,” Justice Department wrote in its legal opinion Friday. “The Committee’s request reflects the next assay in a longstanding political battle over the President’s tax returns.”
Neal, meanwhile, has said it is improper for Treasury or DOJ to second guess a congressional committee's conclusion about its need to see the tax returns — an argument DOJ criticized.
The department went on to specifically cite a provision of the federal tax code that bars unauthorized disclosures of tax returns.
The fight for Trump’s tax returns is one of a number of feuds between House Democrats and the administration over congressional oversight. The White House has battled with Democrats over subpoenas for testimony and documents regarding probes into a controversial 2020 census citizenship question and potential obstruction of justice inquiries related to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Why is this creep still walking around?
You don’t have the right to see ANY of our tax returns, Adam, so FOAD, you creep.
Schiff is the only person on record actively trying to collect information from known foreign actors with the intent to affect the federal government. Yet he walks around free.
The President’s returns are not the object
Getting his returns establishes the precedent to get everybody’s returns.
Likewise, Shiff’s death establishes the precedent that a desd Congressman who over reaches establishes the precedent for overreaching
Release the returns when obama releases all his college transcripts.
Fair?
.....and this rag gives the idiot a voice to be repeated.
STOP REPORTING ON WHAT STUPID PEOPLE SAY AND DO ! ! !
Everyone in Hollywood was his best friend, until he slid down the escalator.
The fact that Trump even ran is an accomplishment in itself. It has completely and utterly destroyed the illusion that we have a viable two-party system, and that the people we elect to go to Washington are actually working on our behalf.
I had a jack-in-the-box. I would turn, and turn, and turn, and that jack...
...he never jumped.
The mem makes legal arguments beyond his competence.
All they want to do is crawl through it to see if there’s anything they can use against Trump or make something up.
Neal, Schiff for Brains and Nadless can sue, but they will lose at SCOTUS.
5.56mm
The 4th Amendment trumps the federal tax code.
The progressive hacks want 6-years of tax returns, four of which are on a private citizen, for political *not* legislative reasons. End of story.
Schiff has a goal....seeing his name in print 300 times.
That’s when he figures he’ll be nominated for president by acclamation.
There will definitely be no tears shed or love loss on this end when this communist/socialist POS assumes room temperature.
“”What will be left of DOJ’s independence and reputation for impartial justice after Barr? The answer? Very little,””
That’s priceless! He’s pretty much admitting that there wasn’t much there for Barr to start with, isn’t he? If that agency had ANY independence, putting Barr there wouldn’t have been necessary!
I keep on sending him Harry Reid’s exercise equipment but he refuse to use my gifts. I guess he likes his pencil neck more than he likes exercising. ...lol.
Criminals don’t like laws.
...and every headline starts “Schiff Blasts...”
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