The Supreme Court ruled that the IRS was obligated to comply with the committees request . The decision was made after a three-year legal battle .
Washington, USA, November 23: After a three-year legal fight, the Supreme Court made it possible for Trump's tax returns to be handed to a congressional committee on Tuesday, according to CNN.Trump's legal team has fought to keep his returns private and turned to the Supreme Court, which is made up of three of his candidates, after losing at the lower court level.There were no proposed disagreements, reported CNN.Trump's appeal for an order that would have barred the Treasury Department from releasing six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee, according to CNN.
Late last year, a Trump-appointed judge ruled in the Houses favour, and the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse the decision, most recently with the full appeals court refusing to hear the appeal.We decided the validity of our case, stayed the course, followed counsel's instructions, and finally, our case was confirmed by the highest court in the country, according to Neal.The principle of control has been upheld since the Magna Carta, and today is no different.This goes above politics, and the committee will now provide the oversight that we have requested for the last three and a half years.It was not immediately clear when the committee would receive the papers. Trump argued that lower courts have fallen foul of the 2020 case, known as Mazars, according to his lawyers.The new lawsuit, according to Douglas Letter, a House prosecutor, comes after Trump's bid to postpone a subpoena, arguing that the House has spent more than three years investigating whether the IRS can effectively and impartially apply federal tax laws to presidents.