By Jan Wolfe
(Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally challenged in court a recent U.S. Justice Department order that his tax returns should be turned over to a House of Representatives committee.
In a filing in federal court in the District of Columbia, Trump’s lawyers said the House Ways and Committee lacks a legitimate basis for seeking his tax returns, and that the Justice Department erred last week when it backed the committee’s request.
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe, Editing by Franklin Paul and Bernadette Baum)
