LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A legal effort to force President Donald Trump to clarify how much he personally owes to banks got a highly skeptical reception at a federal appeals court Friday [12-14-18]. Since last year, Washington attorney Jeffrey Lovitky has mounted a one-man battle to get Trump to re-file his financial disclosure forms to separate his personal debts from those owed by businesses he owns. A federal judge tossed out the suit in April, saying that neither the law nor regulations on the subject require such a breakdown. During arguments Friday on Lovitky’s appeal of that ruling, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sounded set to turn aside the case on a somewhat different ground: Lovitky sued Trump as president, not as an individual, but the financial disclosure at issue in the case was submitted in May 2016 when Trump was a candidate and private individual.”
–Josh Gerstein, “Judges skeptical of legal push to force Trump to reveal personal debts,” Politico, December 14, 2018 12:08 pm