A federal judge has dismissed President Trump's lawsuit to prevent Manhattan prosecutors from obtaining eight years of his tax returns.
Manhattan's district attorney's office last month subpoenaed Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, for eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, with this coming as part of an investigation into hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential election to silence women alleging affairs with Trump. Trump had been seeking to block this subpoena with a lawsuit, arguing he's immune from investigations while president, The New York Times reports.
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