A lawyer for former President Donald Trump is looking to stonewall a yearslong gambit from the House Ways and Means Committee to get its hands on his tax returns.
Trump's lawyer, Cameron Thomas Norris, urged a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the committee's bid to procure the documents from the Treasury Department, accusing it of harboring political motives and insisting it does not have legitimate legislative reason to need them, per the Hill and Reuters.
Some of the judges appeared skeptical of Norris's arguments during Thursday's oral hearings. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson inquired about sending the case down to a lower court to establish a different framework for the case, Reuters reported. Judge David Sentelle, a conservative jurist, asked whether it was possible the committee had a legitimate interest in obtaining the documents beyond politics.
House general counsel Douglas Letter countered that the committee stated its intentions to the Treasury Department and that"allegations of an additional purpose is irrelevant."
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