U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin refuses to release Trump's tax returns to Congress

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Actually, the Washington Post says what happened can be blamed on Democratic precedent:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

The Democrats’ second big mistake was using the “nuclear option” to pack the federal circuit courts with liberal judges. After Democrats won control of the Senate and the White House, they set about trying to fill court vacancies — particularly on the D.C. Circuit — with judges so left-wing they knew they could not meet the 60-vote “standard.” When Republicans (following the precedent Democrats had set) filibustered some of President Barack Obama’s nominees, Democrats again broke precedent and eliminated the filibuster for all but Supreme Court nominees. The short-term gain of going nuclear was immense. Obama flipped most of the circuit courts from conservative to liberal majorities, including the D.C. Circuit. But the long-term costs were around the corner.

The Democrats’ third mistake was to filibuster Neil M. Gorsuch. After Republicans had won back the Senate, they refused to confirm Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, citing as precedent the promise made in 2007 by Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Democrats would not confirm a Supreme Court justice during President George W. Bush’s final year in office.

(eliminated the filibuster for all but Supreme Court nominees) and Mitch eliminated that. Mitch obstructed so many Obama nominees that Trump is now on track to place a record amount of Judges.

But the point is this is a slippery slope we've been going down since at least Obama, and congresscritters should've seen this coming and realized it would eventually bite their side on the ass too. They've been idiots.

I committed a violation of precedent and quoted myself!

I just wanted to say, the beginning of this may have been Robert Bork's nomination. Though he was a REALLY bad nominee.

Bork got a vote