Trump Urges Supreme Court to Stop IRS From Giving His Tax Returns to Congress

Former President Donald Trump on Oct. 31 urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop tax officials from handing over his returns to a congressional panel.
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, is seeking six years of Trump’s returns. Neal says they’re necessary to make sure presidents are audited properly by the IRS.
But the actual purpose is to release the returns to the public, Trump said through his lawyers in the new emergency application.
“Chairman Neal and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s on-the-record statements, as well as statements by other officials involved in making the request, evince quite a different purpose: exposing President Trump’s tax information to the public for the sake of exposure,” Trump’s lawyers said….