Posted on 11/24/2022 9:05:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During my junior year in college, 1960–1961, I took the Constitutional Law course given by Dean Leonard W. Levy, one of the country's foremost con law scholars. In addition to his immense store of knowledge, he acknowledged the wisdom of common sense, noting that the response to Supreme Court decisions may depend on whose ox is gored. And he advised his students, in writing papers, "Strike while the iron is hot."
This New York Times headline, the lead story for November 23, has gotten my iron hot — and dander up. The print edition headline for the story:"JUSTICES DECIDE / AGAINST TRUMP / ON TAX RETURNS." These four words appear below: "WIN FOR HOUSE PANEL." (Here is the headline for the online version.)
This is to suggest that the justices decided not merely "against Trump," but for oppressive, unlimited government.
Did the Supreme Court merely decide against former president Trump, or did the justices decide against due process, legislative legitimacy, regular order in the House of Representatives, indeed, the Constitution itself? Clearly, and in weeks, months, and years to come, the American spirit of liberty will lead most observers to reflect that the justices did not only decide "against Trump," but also rule in favor of an irresponsible, totalitarian government.
Invoking Dean Levy's recognition that a vital element of con law is common sense — Occam's Razor, if you will — was the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States "against Trump" based on a palpable fear that adherence to the Constitution's separation of powers principle would send radical, protesting mobs to the homes of the justices over the Thanksgiving Day weekend? Has the rule of law become tempered by fear of a mob that will not be thwarted by leftist officials?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Consider, please: the high court ruled, in Dobbs, that a right to abortion, created in Roe v. Wade, is nowhere found in the Constitution of the United States.
However, On November 22, half a year later, the high court stated, effectively, that a house of Congress has a right, found nowhere in the Constitution, to the tax returns of a president of the country.
To boot, the justices bestow such a right on a viciously partisan panel that was established to probe the four-hour disturbance at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 — and not the tax returns of the former president. Not only should the justices have dismissed the action against Mr. Trump as the fruit of a poisonous House panel, but the Court should have denounced the subpoena demanding tax records as a bill of attainder — and noted that if tax records for a former president are subject to (unlawful) congressional subpoena, who among the people is protected against a tyrannical Legislature serving a dictatorial administration, with SWAT teams sent forth by a thuggish FBI to enforce totalitarian subpoenas?
We Americans need to tell the court we want to see the tax records of every bass turd that works on Capistol Hill.
I call it the Supine Court.
President Trump should refuse to provide it.
Ping
Kavanaugh and ACB are horrible justices.
So now in January, the new Republican House can also subpoena the tax returns of the Bushie Chief Justice for the past 20 years! Wahoo!
Given that any tax return that itemizes, can be found to have violated a tax statute somewhere, it is 100% certain President Trump will be found in violation.
The next Republic Chairman of the Way & Means Committee should have read the ruling for Biden’s Tax returns and then state “I deemed this passed”. Next issue of business.......
It’s what the law says, it’s not something that the Supreme Court just made up. All it takes is a written request, not even a subpoena. Of course the Dems will leak any detail that is hurtful to Trump. But as the saying goes, the Court rules on what the law says, not what it should say.
Section 6103(f)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) reads:
Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary [of the Treasury] shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request....
All government workers tax records are now available to investigators form the Biden to the lowest employee.
I want to see the tax records for the USSC justices.
Totally agree. They were infiltrators from the get go. And Trump fell for it.
So does that law violate the constitution?
he has already been audited
now lets have an audit of biden’s
audit them all
If the republicans have balls the new house needs to do this to every rat politician accused of working and profiting from china
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