Taking Dummyrats, especially Neal, to the woodshed. Slapping-silly90))
"The Committee’s asserted purpose—to consider legislation regarding the
IRS’s practices in auditing presidential tax filings—was implausible."
"During these political debates, Chairman Neal and his political allies
asserted many reasons for reviewing the President’s tax returns, see supra
note 19 and accompanying text, yet many of them would fall outside the
jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee, which is the only House
committee that could release the returns to the public."
"For these reasons, we advised that the Committee’s request for the
President’s tax information under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f) should be denied.
Congress could not constitutionally confer upon the Committee the right
to compel disclosure by the Executive Branch of confidential information
that did not serve a legitimate legislative purpose. While the Executive
Branch should accord due deference and respect to congressional re-
quests, Treasury was not obliged to accept the Committee’s stated pur-
pose without question, and based on all the facts and circumstances, we
agreed that the Committee lacked a legitimate legislative purpose for its
request."
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1173756/download&hl=en
"The Committee’s asserted purpose—to consider legislation regarding the
IRS’s practices in auditing presidential tax filings—was implausible."
"During these political debates, Chairman Neal and his political allies
asserted many reasons for reviewing the President’s tax returns, see supra
note 19 and accompanying text, yet many of them would fall outside the
jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee, which is the only House
committee that could release the returns to the public."
"For these reasons, we advised that the Committee’s request for the
President’s tax information under 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f) should be denied.
Congress could not constitutionally confer upon the Committee the right
to compel disclosure by the Executive Branch of confidential information
that did not serve a legitimate legislative purpose. While the Executive
Branch should accord due deference and respect to congressional re-
quests, Treasury was not obliged to accept the Committee’s stated pur-
pose without question, and based on all the facts and circumstances, we
agreed that the Committee lacked a legitimate legislative purpose for its
request."
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1173756/download&hl=en