7/24/2019

LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Wednesday [7-24-19] to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the House’s top tax writer from asking New York officials to turn over the president’s state tax returns. Trump filed suit in the District of Columbia on Tuesday to keep House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) from taking advantage of a New York law that would give him access to the state returns upon request. New York officials are also named in the suit. But Trump’s attorneys said Wednesday they fear Neal could ask for the returns before the case proceeds…It’s another volley in the tug-of-war between Trump and Democrats who are bent on getting ahold of his tax returns, which he has refused to release voluntarily. Neal has asked a federal court to order the administration to give him six years’ worth of Trump’s returns under a federal law that allows the chairs of Congress’s tax committees to obtain anyone’s confidential tax information.”

Toby Echert, “Trump wants restraining order to keep his New York tax returns away from Democrats,” Politico, July 24, 2019 5:23 pm