WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a congressional committee from getting years of his tax returns.
The emergency application to the justices on Monday comes after Trump repeatedly lost in the lower courts trying to stop the IRS from fulfilling a request from the House Ways and Means Committee for six years’ worth of his tax returns.
Trump’s pitch for the Supreme Court to intervene and temporarily stop the IRS from turning over the documents while he argues for the high court to take up the merits of the case will go to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. Roberts, who handles emergency matters out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, could act on Trump’s request by himself or circulate it to the other justices for a vote.
