{"id":38839,"date":"2019-07-31T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38839"},"modified":"2019-07-31T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:56:14","slug":"fix-congress-first-federal-government-seizure-of-president-trumps-new-york-state-individual-tax-returns-is-most-likely-a-violation-of-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38839","title":{"rendered":"Fix Congress First: Federal Government Seizure of President Trump\u2019s New York State Individual Tax Returns is Most Likely a Violation of the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fix Congress First: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fixcongressfirst.org\/federal-government-seizure-of-president-trumps-new-york-state-individual-tax-returns-is-most-likely-a-violation-of-the-fourth-amendment\/853\/\">Federal Government Seizure of President Trump\u2019s New York State Individual Tax Returns is Most Likely a Violation of the Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Don Suarez, arguing that Carpenter applies: \u201cWe hold only that a warrant is required in the rare case where the suspect has a legitimate privacy interest in records held by a third party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Statutorily, there is a heightened privacy interest in federal tax returns because of the Nixon-era privacy protections in tax returns. Many states have similar protections. Query: Assuming Carpenter applies, and why shouldn&#8217;t it, if the taxpayer has publicly and repeatedly said for four years that he wants to make them public but can&#8217;t because of an alleged audit, has he publicly waived any reasonable expectation of privacy? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix Congress First: Federal Government Seizure of President Trump\u2019s New York State Individual Tax Returns is Most Likely a Violation of the Fourth Amendment by Don Suarez, arguing that Carpenter applies: \u201cWe hold only that a warrant is required in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38839\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38843,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38839\/revisions\/38843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}