Denied Whistleblower Argues Tax Court Judges Unconstitutional

A whistleblower fighting years of award denials by the US Tax Court says his case should be reconsidered partly because the court’s judges are unconstitutional.

David Myers had filed a whistleblower petition in 2015, but it was dismissed as untimely two years later. He appealed, and the D.C. Circuit remanded the case to consider whether equitable tolling was appropriate. Years of additional legal wrangling followed before the denial was upheld and the case dismissed earlier this year.

His second appeal, which was filed in July, challenges the court’s authority—the court exercises executive power but is “unaccountable to the President in ...