Oversight is a Congressional function. Revenge politics however isn’t Congressional oversight. And that is exactly what is in play from Trump hating DEMs in position of power in the House.
In regards to Benghazi, that was a very real incident where 4 American’s died. The events surrounding that incident were clearly covered up, and very visibly. It is a given that there would be congressional hearings. The multiple hearings were the result of massive Obama interference and obstruction, including the destruction of Hillary’s emails on an illegal private server.
It is absurd to compare that legitimate oversight function with the Trump hating revenge politics taking place in the House today.
Well that is just stupid. First of all Congress and more specifically the Ways and Means Chairman isn’t open for all, it’s one person.
2nd and more importantly, the chairman requesting said information is not based on a Freedom of Information Act, which wouldn’t cover tax documentation of any individual anyway. It’s based on a federal statute far older than that.
I would say if you don’t like that, call your congressman and get them to change the law
I’m gonna give you some free advice. Whatever Trump’s taxes show, don’t celebrate. They will have to follow up on all leads to make sure he’s not up his eyeballs in debt to foreign entities.
Actually that is something I made up on my own, but it does very appropriately describe what is going on. I’m making it up as I go along, but I kind of like it! It has a nice ring to it!
Ways and Means Chairman doesn’t need a warrant to get Trumps tax returns. It couldn’t be made more clear.
And I for one am gonna be hard pressed to think that a federal judge and even the SCOTUS Justices themselves are going to make a value judgement as to the validity of why Neal requested the documents as opposed to the plain text reading of the statute itself.
He just needs to say that he needs them for legislative purposes, which he did and that is what the statute requires. Federal judges aren’t going to be mirroring your 3rd world revenge politics view.