Former President Trump's attorneys argue that the reason given by committee chair Richard Neal for seeking the returns — to examine how the IRS audits presidents — is simply a pretext for wanting to search for something embarrassing.
Trump's attorneys said during more than three hours of courtroom arguments that the reason given by committee chair Richard Neal, D-Mass., for seeking the returns — to examine how the IRS audits presidents — is simply a pretext for wanting to search for something embarrassing.
"The committee had a valid reason to look at the IRS program for auditing presidential returns and considering whether it should be required by a statute," said Douglas Letter, representing the Ways and Means Committee. Trump's lawyers also told the judge on Tuesday that previous court rulings, involving congressional efforts to get records from Trump's accountants, imposed limits on the kind of information Congress can seek. But Letter said those rulings applied only to a sitting president's records in response to a subpoena.
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