- A US judge has given the Biden government two weeks to decide on a position in a lawsuit over Donald Trump’s tax returns.
- House Democrats sued to obtain the records.
- A House Democrat lawyer said they were issuing another subpoena to obtain Trump’s taxes.
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The Biden government has had two weeks to decide whether or not to oppose the previous government’s opposition to the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns, reports The Washington Post.
In 2019, Democrats sued the House Ways and Means Committee to obtain the former president’s IRS applications. The U.S. judge in the case, Trevor McFadden, on Friday chose to give the new president’s team some time to reconsider what government attorneys will argue in the case.
A major objection to the resignation was that it would violate the separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches of government. Since Trump is no longer president, it is no longer applicable, the Post noted.
“It would be a former president trying to stop a political branch, rather than suing one branch over another. That’s at least my instinct,” McFadden said Friday.
A spokesman for the Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over tax issues, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In September, The New York Times got some of Trump’s tax returns and revealed that in 2016 and 2017 he paid only $ 750 in federal income taxes.
Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Trump could not stop New York investigators from issuing subpoenas for his tax returns and other financial documents. Prosecutors there are investigating the former president’s business empire and whether it violated state law.
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