国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trump files lawsuit to fence off increasing pressure to disclose tax returns_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Trump files lawsuit to fence off increasing pressure to disclose tax returns

Also on Sept. 9, the president filed a court document via his lawyer, arguing that federal judges should deny a motion issued Aug. 29 by New York State officials to dismiss Trump's lawsuit trying to challenge the state's recently enacted law that allows Congress to request his tax returns.

Trump's lawyers purported in the document that the officials' motion should either be rejected or should not be ruled on until Congress makes a request for the president's state tax returns.

New York State has enacted what is known as the TRUST Act, which authorizes the state's Department of Taxation and Finance to share public officials' tax return information with a requesting Congressional tax committee.

"As the home state of Donald Trump, New York has a special role to play to help avoid a constitutional crisis between the President and Congress in their effort to obtain his tax returns," New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, who proposed the TRUST Act, said in a statement on July 8, when the legislation was signed into law by New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Trump on July 23 filed a lawsuit "in his capacity as a private citizen" against Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee, as well as New York State's attorney general and its tax chief, claiming that the House panel "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose" to invoke the TRUST Act to obtain his New York tax returns.