Former US President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court’s decision after it rejected his request to stop a congressional committee from obtaining his federal income tax returns.
Recently the three justices that he appointed unanimously voted to reject his request to temporarily block the House Ways and Means Committee from getting his tax returns from the IRS as part of a probe of how the tax agency audits the returns of sitting presidents.
prompting the 45th president of the United States to lash out at the Supreme court on Wednesday.
“Why would anybody be surprised that the Supreme Court has ruled against me, they always do! The Supreme Court has lost its honor, prestige, and standing, & has become nothing more than a political body, with our Country paying the price. Shame on them!” the former president rants in a post on his Truth social account.
He also blasted the Supreme Court’s previous decision, refusing to take cases, seeking to reverse his 2020 presidential election loss to current US President Joe Biden.
In an exclusive report released by CNBC, it was revealed that during the Tuesday hearing, “a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit appeared strongly inclined to rule in favor of the Department of Justice’s request to overturn a Trump-appointed federal judge’s decision to appoint a watchdog to review documents seized from his Florida residence before prosecutors would be allowed to use them for a probe.”
Trump’s rant comes as the DOJ conducts a criminal investigation into the former president’s removal of records from the White House which prompted the FBI to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, in August to seize those documents.
“Other than the fact that this involves a former president, everything else about this is indistinguishable from any pre-indictment search warrant,” Court of Appeals Judge Bill Pryor said during Tuesday’s oral arguments in Atlanta.
“And we’ve got to be concerned about the precedent that we would create that would allow any target of a federal criminal investigation to go into a district court and to have a district court entertain this kind of petition, exercise equitable jurisdiction and interfere with the executive branch’s ongoing investigation,” he added.
