C.J. Roberts and J. Thomas are pressing hard whether the House Subpoenas for Trump's tax records are "pretextual," a test they said was INSANE! end of
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JackDawson (aka dawson)
May 12 '20, 07:38
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days if we applied to President's Trump justification for the "Travel Ban."
The parties agree that the House has a subpoena power in furtherance of its legislative role--i.e., subpoena records to help it study an issue it may legislate over. (It's not clear what the powers are simply to act basically as a prosecutor).
The Trump Tax Subpoenas were purportedly to study the issue of foreign payments and entanglements in the US, given what happened in 2016.
Trump says this is a pretext, the real point is to embarrass him.
Now, the very Justices who said it would be crazy to try to get behind the mind of one man who issued an executive order to try to divine if his justification to ban muslims was a "pretext" to cover his xenophobia, are leaning hard on a pretext analysis for a subpoena issued by a committee.
America, this is not a democracy. If you think otherwise, you are ...naive?
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