Trump loses another court battle over tax returns, likely sending it to the Supreme Court

Donald Trump.
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President Trump wants to take his tax battle all the way up.

On Monday, Trump lost another court fight to withhold his tax returns from prosecutors, with a federal court of appeals ruling his accounting firm must give Manhattan prosecutors eight years of his personal and business tax returns. But Trump's lawyer still isn't letting that stand, and said shortly after the ruling that he plans on appealing the decision to the Supreme Court.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.