The US Supreme Court has stopped releasing former President Donald Trump’s tax documents to a House committee. At Trump’s request, court president John Roberts yesterday ordered that the IRS tax authority’s disclosure of the documents be halted for the time being.
Trump’s lawyers had already filed an urgent petition with the US Supreme Court to stop the last-minute release. The Congressional Committee now has until November 10 to respond to this motion.
Trump did not release tax returns
An appeals court in Washington last week cleared the way for Trump’s tax records to be released to the committee. They should therefore have been delivered from this Thursday. In recent years, Trump has opposed lower levels of Congress by obtaining information about his tax affairs.
Contrary to usual practice in the United States, real estate developer Trump did not make his income tax returns public as a presidential candidate or after moving into the White House. And to this day he tries to avoid disclosure. Critics therefore suspect he has something to hide.
The Treasury Department under Trump’s successor Joe Biden instructed the IRS last year to turn over the documents to the committee. Trump reacted in court.