Judge Puts Dems' Suit Over Trump Tax Returns on Hold

A federal judge on Friday put on hold a lawsuit by House Dems looking to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns, after an appeals court agreed to rehear a different case that touches on some of the very same same legal issues.

As The Hill reports, Judge Trevor McFadden, a federal district court judge in Washington, D.C., who is also a Trump appointee, said in a court filing that the case is suspended "pending further order of this Court."

He initially put the case on hold in January, until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in a separate suit over Dems' subpoena of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Late last month, a three-judge panel for the appeals court issued an opinion saying House Democrats didn't have standing to sue to enforce the McGahn subpoena.

House Democrats asked the full circuit to rehear the McGahn case, and the court has agreed to do so.

Both cases involve subpoena enforcement issues, among other things.

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