Officials from the US Department of Justice and Manhattan US attorney's office asked a federal judge to temporarily block a subpoena by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for eight years of President Trump's tax returns
Officials from the US Department of Justice and Manhattan US attorney's office asked a federal judge Wednesday to temporarily block a subpoena by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for eight years of President Donald Trump's tax returns to allow time for"appropriate briefing of the weighty constitutional issues involved."
"The President's complaint raises a number of significant constitutional issues that potentially implicate important interests of the United States," the officials wrote in a court filing.The Department of Justice hadn't participated in the lawsuit prior to Wednesday's filing. Trump sued the Manhattan District Attorney's Office after it sent his longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, a grand jury subpoena seeking tax returns and related documents going back to 2011.
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