Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to block his tax returns release

Former President Donald Trump requested that the Supreme Court intervene in his tax returns case (Picture: AP)

Former President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to intervene and stop the lawmakers from obtaining his tax returns.

‘The Committee has no pressing need for Applicants’ information so it can study generic legislation about funding and regulating future IRS audits of future Presidents,’ wrote Trump’s attorney Cameron Norris on Monday.

Releasing Trump’s tax records to the House Ways and Means Committee would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to the ex-president, according to Norris.

‘This case raises important questions about the separation of powers that will affect every future President,’ stated Trump in the filing.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger makes opening statements during the Trump Organization’s criminal tax trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Monday (Picture: Reuters)

Trump’s team wrote that ‘no Congress has ever wielded its legislative powers to demand a President’s tax returns’ and that the committee seeks the records solely for ‘releasing the President’s tax information to the public’.

If the Supreme Court declines Trump’s request, his tax returns will be turned over to the committee on Wednesday.

Trump asked the high court to ‘grant an administrative stay’ on the records by Wednesday, according to the filing, ‘and then to stay the issuance of the mandate pending the filing and disposition of a petition for writ of certiorari’.

Trump’s filing comes after the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit last week declined to review earlier rulings that the Congress members are entitled to access the records.

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