Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a rally in Warren, Michigan, U.S., October 1, 2022.
Dieu-nalio Chery | Reutersm
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday lost his latest attempt in court to block years of his income tax returns from being given to the House Ways and Means Commission.
The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, denied Trump’s request to have a full team of judges on that court reheating his appeal to a lower court order requiring the Treasury Department file those tax returns.
A panel of three judges on the appeals court in August unanimously rejected Trump’s appeal of the lower court’s decision.
Thursday’s decision by the full appeals court, with no recorded dissent, set the stage for Trump to make a tentative request to the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of he. However, the court is not obligated to accept the request.
The Ways and Means Committee first asked the Treasury Department in 2019 about the income tax returns of Trump and the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust and seven limited liability companies, one of which operates such as the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump was president at the time.
Trump as the Republican nominee for president, and the president broke with decades of tradition by refusing to make his tax returns public.
A federal judge last December dismissed the former president’s challenge to a House committee to obtain his tax records from the Treasury Department as part of an investigation into how the IRS audited his tax returns. Check the president’s income tax returns.
In its ruling in August dismissing the challenge to that order, the three-judge D.C. circuit appeals court panel noted that while tax returns are generally confidential under federal law, when the president The Ways and Means Committee requests the Treasury Department to return written instructions that do not apply.
