U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily barred the release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, granting a petition filed Monday by the ex-president.
Former President Trump petitioned the Supreme 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 filed such an urgent request after an appeals court paved the way for his tax return to go before the House Ways and Means Committee in the coming days.
This is the fastest way that exists for the lower house of the US Parliament to get hold of the statements of the former president after having requested them unsuccessfully through different channels over the past few years.
In this way, Trump’s legal team has managed to get the Supreme Court to halt the publication of his tax returns while waiting for other judicial bodies to evaluate whether or not to accept an open case to review the rulings of the Justice that approve this disclosure.
The former president’s lawyers presented their petition to the Supreme Court pointing to the impossibility of publishing Trump’s fiscal 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.»
