DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP TAXES: “House Democrats’ legal bid for President Donald Trump’s tax returns has been assigned to a district court judge appointed by Trump. Trevor McFadden is slated to hear a suit filed Tuesday [7-3-19] by lawmakers demanding the administration turn over six years of the president’s tax filings. McFadden has previously ruled for the administration in another high-profile fight with Democrats, when he decided that lawmakers did not have the legal standing to sue to prevent Trump from reassigning money appropriated by Congress to build a wall along the border with Mexico. The administration is likely to pursue a similar argument in the tax-return case, experts predict, by contending that the court should not get involved in the long-running battle between Congress and the administration. Trump has defied a decades-old tradition of presidents voluntarily releasing their tax returns. Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) is seeking Trump’s filings under a 1924 law allowing the heads of Congress’s tax committees to examine anyone’s private tax information.”
–Brian Faler, “Democrats’ suit for Trump’s tax returns assigned to Trump-appointed judge,” Politico, July 3, 2019 12:18 pm