Says the man that conflates warrants with subpoenas.
No, I didn't.
I applied the law properly and in context, accepting that the congress only has authority to dig into the president's
private affairs if a crime has been committed, and only then when there is probable cause to suspect the President, and a request to the DOJ to investigate.. at which point an investigation can file a warrant for his tax records.
Congress only has subpoena power over documents that were generated by the administration with regard to their performing their role as chief executive, and regardless of what nitwit put the bug in your ear, private tax returns are not connected in any way to the President's job as chief executive.
And guess what? Verifying that the president is complying with Emoluments clause and is not financially conflicting is a perfectly legitimate function of that, and you bet your ass the courts will eventually rule that way.
False. The Emoluments clause does not grant Congress access to a presidents private documents. The emoluments clause is a law that the president must follow, but you aren't allowed to hound the President on the assumption of guilt.
They don't have to accuse the president of a crime. All they need is cause to have as much information as possible for the oversight duties
Patently and stupidly false. No, your rage-addled fever dreams are not justification for unfettered access to private documents now matter what third world authoritarian coups you think you are living through.
His birth and school records were more the jurisdiction of state authorities, while the financial information relating to Trump goes through the IRS, which is federal, so it's apples to oranges.
LOL. Nice try. The protection of private documents from unlawful search and seizure the right of the individual, and protected by federal law. Federal requirements for running for president are federal law, too, so by your reasoning, the congress should have been able to *chuckle* "subpoena" *chuckle* the President Obama for his school records.. :lamo
The congress couldn't get those documents not because they were the jurisdiction of the state (again, lmfao) they couldn't get them because they had no power to subpoena and can only receive tax documents collected legally by warrant as part of a criminal investigation.
The law is clear that the chairman of the W&M Committee may request the tax records of ANY citizens, without any reason, and hold a closed session for others to see them. This law was literally put in place for Congress to inquire about the financial motivations we're talking about.
False. They will need an actual real world crime by which to justify the tax returns, and even then will have to get them as part of a criminal finding by an criminal investigation. In the case of Nixon, for example, Nixon was tied to an actual crime that Congress was investigating. The only hope you had was for Mueller to have found something criminal on the part of the President. Oh, sorry... you lose.
I know you don't like the law, but it's crystal clear that it's not up to Trump.
I know you don't know the law, so I will have to wait to you learn it before I can conclude whether you like it or not.
