The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the House Ways and Means Committee to get six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the IRS, essentially ending a court battle that started in 2019.
The justices, in an unsigned order with no explanation and no noted dissents, declined a request from Trump to halt an opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that allowed Chairman Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., to get the records.
Neal made the request to the Treasury Department to access personal tax records of the former president and several of his businesses under a law that allows the committee’s chair to view any tax record.
