I question if they’d even hear it. If this were any other person, things would never have gotten this far and the tax documents would already have been turned over. The idea that because this is Trump or the president, things are different, is dumb.
We might experience a previously nonexistent issue with out oversight system. When the executive branch, the branch charged with enforcing laws, refuses to comply with oversight, what is the result? There is no real system to “force” the executive branch to comply with laws. It’s like a corrupt police force refusing to write themselves speeding tickets.
It is unsurprising that no case law supports the dissent. Under its view, Congress’s power to investigate, when it comes to the President and all other impeachable officials, would no longer be “co-extensive with [its] power to legislate.”…The dissent would reorder the very structure of the Constitution.
Investigations of impeachable offenses simply are not, and never have been, within Congress’s legislative power.
The majority decision response to Rao:
“To be sure, a Congress pursuing a legitimate legislative objective may, as the many examples recounted in the dissent demonstrate, choose to move from legislative investigation to impeachment,” Tatel wrote. “But the dissent cites nothing in the Constitution or case law—and there is nothing—that compels Congress to abandon its legislative role at the first scent of potential illegality and confine itself exclusively to the impeachment process.”
Thanks for that. Is there any situation in which Trump will have to hand over the documents while things progress? Is it automatically on hold once Trump appeals?