well, this is an extraordinary case that shouldn t exist, because of a corruption matter in the 1920s, congress obtained, gave itself the same ride the president of the united states has, which is to look at anybody s tax return. any president, can call up taxes and have it delivered to them. so, three congressional committees have the right to inspect their tax returns. in fact, the joint committee on taxation, at least, he has three people stationed at the irs, just review tax returns, because they need to do that to run and oversight over this of the system. this cockamamie notion that the committee has to come up with some reason donald trump likes to see it, which is what steve mnuchin, as treasury secretary, put forth, this is utter nonsense. trump, as part of his delay, delay, delay strategy, no down in the last day, appealed to the supreme court. hopefully, the supreme court will deny, that, is they won t listen to the appeal.
the documents from being handed over. as to what the supreme court will do, with his appeal and how fast they ll move if they do take the case, i really don t know. other federal court judges in the district court and the appeals court, in washington d.c., they have been willing to hear this on a hurry basis. a really fast basis. i think, in part, according to the rulings because the judges have recognize the urgency of this investigation. because, the seriousness of january 6th and also because the investigation will probably get kneecap if the republican take over the house and shut it down. if they win the midterm elections. i don t know if the supreme court would take up the appeal from trump, at all. if they do take it up, i don t know what kind of pace they will take it up on, or if they will be more amenable to his delay, delay, delay strategy. i don t know, what they will do. neither do you. unless some of the justices are watching right now, in which
january 6th investigation. they did pause the effect of this ruling for two weeks to give trump the opportunity to appeal this ruling up to the t supreme court if he wants to. and presumably he wants to. i think one of the things we have learned over these last five or six years with trump as a political actor is he sees the court system as a giant brake pedal on the bumper car that is his life in the public eye.onea i mean, if you re in trouble for something, you tie it up in court. if somebody wants to ask you questions about something, you don t want to answer questions, tie it up in court. if somebody wants you to answer for something you have definitely done, tie it up in court. hope it takes as long as possible so the other side runs out of patience or runs out of money or stumbles into a technicality or if you re really lucky, the time will run out on whatever the exact conflict is that s in question before the courts, the original question lh will become moot by the time any co
down, if they win the midterm elections. i don t know if the supreme court will take up the appeal from trump at all. if they do take it up, i don t know what kind of pace they ll take it up on or be more t amenable to his delay, delay, delay strategy. i don t know what they will do, and neither do you. unless some of the justices are watching right now, in which case, hello, it s very nice to meet you, have you thought about retirement? seriously, you should think about it. retirement s nice. anyway. to the extent that it makes a difference to the supreme court how the lower courts have handled these matters, to the extent that the way these kindsn of cases actually get to the supreme court makes a difference to the justices when they decide whether they re going to take it up and how fast they re going to move. it is worth noting that the f court rulings against trump on this issue have been pretty scalding at two different levels now. the first time trump lost in court on this issue
record, that would be december 23rd, wouldn t that be a fine start to a merry christmas for everyone. presumably, though, he s going to appeal to the supreme court. and he ll do so in time to stop the documents from being handed over. as to what the supreme court will do with his appeal and how fast they ll move if they do take the case, i really don t know. other federal court judges in the district court and the appeals court in washington, d.c., they have been willing to hear this on a hurry up basis, a really fast basis. i think in part, according to the rulings because the judges have recognized the urgency of this investigation, because of the seriousness of january 6th and also because the investigation will probably get kneecaped if the republicans take over the house and shut it down. if they win the midterm elections. i don t know if the supreme court will take up the appeal from trump at all. if they do take it up, i don t know what kind of pace they ll take it up on or be m