Originally Posted by
TCinVA
There is a law...which has not been really tested in court, as best I know...that allows Congress to get specific returns from citizens under very controlled circumstances where the contents are not revealed to the public.
There is no law that allows for what Elijah Cummings is trying to do...get banking records for Donald Trump as a private citizen as well as bank records of his children.
The Supremes are not going to let that stand because if they endorse it, then it means there is no such thing as any right to privacy in the information government collects from citizens. The way the democrats in congress have approached this leaves absolutely no doubt about their intentions and the Supremes aren't going to endorse that.