Trump Lawyers Say Tax-Return Demand ‘Retaliation’ by Rivals (1)

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to block the release of his tax returns to Congress, saying Democrats’ pursuit of the documents amounts to political retaliation.

The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo on Friday calling for the release of Trump’s tax information to the Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee. But House Democrats and lawyers for Trump agreed to delay the handover to allow the former president’s legal team to litigate the issue in court.

In a filing in Washington on Wednesday, Trump’s lawyers reiterated their longstanding opposition, arguing that ...