Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday asked the High Court to suspend the release of his tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service to a House committee led by members of the Democratic Party.
Trump has filed this emergency request after an appeals court paved the way for his tax returns to go before the House Ways and Means Committee in the coming days, CNN reports.
This is the fastest way for the lower house of the U.S. Parliament to get hold of the former president’s declarations after having requested them unsuccessfully through different channels over the last few years.
Trump’s legal team seeks the Supreme Court to stop the publication of his tax returns while other legal bodies evaluate whether to accept an open case to review the rulings of the Justice that approve this disclosure.
The former president’s lawyers have transferred to the Supreme Court the impossibility of publishing Trump’s tax years, since the ruling of the Court of Appeals that allows their disclosure takes effect on Thursday, in three days.
«No Congress has ever exercised its legislative powers to demand the tax returns of a president,» Trump himself has denounced on occasion, who has warned that the decision of the Court of Appeals will have «far-reaching implications».
