The British Observer newspaper said that a powerful Democrat-led committee in the House of Representatives is pressing a federal judge to order former US President Donald Trump to comply with the order to investigate his financial records, as he has no reason to withhold information now that he has left office, according to a source familiar with the matter. This issue.
The newspaper considered that the move adopted by the House Oversight Committee, led by President Caroline Maloney, is the latest blow from Democrats in their years-long quest to secure Trump's tax records and related documents, to test the scope and limits of oversight authority in Congress.
If successful, the source said, the commission would be closer to obtaining and possibly publishing Trump's tax records.
"While the commission's need for subpoena information has not changed, there is one key fact: Prosecutor Donald J Trump is no longer the president," Douglas Leiter, the Democrats ’general counsel to Congress, wrote in a motion made last week in the US boycott.
"Because the post is no longer the occupant," writes Leiter, "the constitutional principles for the separation of powers that were the basis of the recent Supreme Court ruling have diminished dramatically."
The newspaper pointed out that prosecutors at the Manhattan Attorney's Office in New York obtained the former president's tax records in March, just hours after the Supreme Court rejected his latest attempt to conceal them. However, since they are part of a law enforcement investigation, they have not yet been released.
A spokesperson for the District Attorney's office said that thousands of documents handed over to accounting firm Mazers USA include tax returns from January 2011 to August 2019, as well as financial statements, engagement letters and communications related to financial disclosures.
But in a separate ruling, the Supreme Court ruled last summer that Congress cannot see many of the same records, saying instead that the case should be returned to lower courts due to the "separation concerns" surrounding the case.
However, the committee now believes that with Trump out of office, the separation concerns that arose when Congress called him the incumbent president are no longer in effect, the source said.
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