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(WASHINGTON) The Justice Department s Office of Legal Counsel has determined the Treasury Department must hand over former President Donald Trump s tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The opinion, posted Friday, says that while the committee cannot compel the Executive Branch to disclose [tax information] without satisfying the constitutional requirement that the information could serve a legitimate legislative purpose, the Ways and Means Committee in this instance invoked sufficient reasons for requesting the former President s tax information.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal first requested six years worth of Trump s tax returns in April of 2019, in addition to tax returns for eight of Trump s businesses, under a 97-year-old law that requires the Treasury secretary to furnish the returns of any taxpayer to the chairman of the tax-writ
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Talk about a no-win choice, especially with Congress abdicating it. Last year, the Trump administration set up a compassionate release program allowing thousands of federal prisoners to go into home confinement to reduce crowding and prevent further spread of COVID-19. That policy was intended to be temporary, with prisoners returned to their facilities to serve the rest of their terms when the pandemic abated.
Last week, the New York Times reported that the Biden administration has decided that the time will eventually come to re-incarcerate them no matter how well behaved they have been during their release. In doing so, Joe Biden has tacitly accepted the same policy established by Donald Trump, mainly because the Department of Justice read the statute the same way:
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