The judge’s questions will flip to the House’s request for Trump’s tax records

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But the Biden administration re -examined after Neal made a new request this year for roughly the same information for tax years 2015 to 2020. July’s opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel reversed course and said there was a legitimate legislative objective.

On Tuesday, McFadden pressed a Justice Department lawyer about the flip-flop that has now put the House Democrats and Treasury Department on both sides of the case. “I find it hard to imagine that you would retain that perspective for anything other than this request,” McFadden said.

McFadden also asked what if Congress would change hands and a Republican chairman asked for the tax records of Hunter Biden, a president’s son. “Will the Justice Department just say, ‘Oh, sure, we need to postpone Congress.’ Will that be the position of the administration? ” said McFadden.

James Gilligan, who represents the federal government, McFadden said the administration’s motives were not important at all.

The Justice Department’s memo from July said the issue was “unambiguous,” noting that the law says “at the written request” of the chairman of one of the three congressional tax committees, the Secretary will “provide” requested tax information to the Committee.

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