President Donald Trump, the Republican National Committee, and the California Republican Party filed separate lawsuits Aug. 6 to block California’s new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns.
“The effort to deny California voters the opportunity to cast a ballot for President Trump in 2020 will clearly fail,” Jay Sekulow, counsel to the president, said in a prepared statement. “Legal scholars from across the political spectrum have roundly condemned this flagrantly illegal statute.”
Trump filed suit as an individual and through his campaign, alleging Democrats who enacted the California law “made it clear they were retaliating against ...
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