Federal judge says Trump is 'wrong on the law' in tax return fight, but Trump will appeal ruling
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Donald Trump lost in court again, but as usual, he’s delaying his way into something like a win. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Treasury Department could disclose Trump's tax returns to Congress. But District Judge Trevor McFadden, aFederal judge says Trump is 'wrong on the law' in tax return fight, but Trump will appeal ruling
Donald Trump lost in court again, but as usual, he’s delaying his way into something like a win. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Treasury Department could disclose Trump's tax returns to Congress. But District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, put his ruling on hold for 14 days while Trump appeals. And assuming Trump loses that appeal, he’ll likely appeal to the Supreme Court, all with a goal of dragging out the process until the possibility of a Republican-controlled Congress in January 2023. Trump is losing regularly and decisively, though, with another recent loss on his claim of executive privilege to block the Jan. 6 select committee from getting his documents. In his efforts to keep his tax returns from the House Ways and Means Committee, he was “wrong on the law,” McFadden wrote, as a “long line of Supreme Court cases requires great deference to facially valid congressional inquiries.” Read more