Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block Disclosure of Tax Returns (1)

Former President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to block a congressional committee from getting years of his tax returns.

The emergency application to the justices on Monday comes after Trump repeatedly lost in the lower courts trying to stop the Internal Revenue Service from fulfilling a request from the House Ways and Means Committee for six years’ worth of his tax returns.

The IRS is set to turn over the tax returns to the committee on Nov. 3. Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop the agency from sharing the documents until he has a chance to ...