I believe Trump has a great case to ask the USSC to issue an emergency stay of any release. There is USSC precedence that obtaining private information with the intent to publicly release them so as to damage the “private citizen” and for no other reason. I believe the committee said that they wanted the tax files for legislative reasons and that they would not be made public.
Exactly. The Dems got Trump’s taxes under false premises. The attack on Trump is unrelenting. The Republicans majority has to retaliate or surrender and get it over with.
I tried to find something in a legal argument to that effect. They plainly DID tell the press they wouldn’t make it public:
“It’s very sensitive information,” he said at the time. “We intend to deal with it professionally.” (Rep. Neal to Roll Call)
“...I believe the committee said that they wanted the tax files for legislative reasons ...”
Almost every legal voter in the USA is now filing or has in the past filed their tax returns.
This sort of Dem action could truly BACKFIRE.
My uninformed guess isn't so much that the dems are or are not able to release his tax returns publicly (funny thing about legislators, they rarely write laws that limit their own powers), but what they're debating is legal cover to get the returns out to the public in a plausibly legitimate way (not actually legitimate, they just want a fig leaf of an enumerated power of the constitution so it won't look explicitly like they lied to the supreme court, which is exactly what they did.) I'll bet that three months from now it will be wall to wall coverage of the minutiae of the tax returns, doxxing and shaming of any accountant or lawyer who participated in the preparation of the returns, and breathless declarations that this is the crime of the century. All the while, the congressional hearings about actual government suppression of speech via big tech will go uncovered in the nightly news.