Judge calls Trump lawyers' legal argument in tax return fight 'repugnant'

In the legal fight for his tax returns, Pres. Trump's lawyers argued he can't be criminally investigated. A federal judge rejected that claim, writing 'This Court finds aspects of such a doctrine repugnant to the nation's governmental structure.'

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