Trump drops court battle with Congress

Trump confirmed that the law does not apply to him as a former president.

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Former US President Donald Trump has abandoned a long-running legal battle with Congress over access to his New York state tax revenues.

The case dates back to 2019, when Trump was president, as he filed a lawsuit against the Committee for Review and Recommendations on the Government’s Budget in the US House of Representatives, which was then led by Richard Neal, a representative of the state of “Massachusetts”, and officials in New York State, regarding a law that was recently passed. Known as the Trust Act, it gave members of Congress a way to obtain the president's tax records.

The committee did not end up filing a motion to obtain the New York documents, and the judge did not have to rule on Trump's allegations, which challenge the validity of the law.

For the next two years the case remained mostly pending, with the judge now and then requesting reports on the situation from the parties.

And the latest filing from Trump's attorney and acting general counsel of the House of Representatives, voluntarily dismissing the case, reiterated Trump's position that the Trust Act could not apply to a former president, citing the recent change in political circumstances. 

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