WASHINGTON—President Trump’s personal lawyer questioned the motives of the lawmaker seeking the president’s tax returns and again urged the Treasury Department to resist Democrats’ request for the records. In a letter Monday to Treasury General Counsel Brent McIntosh, attorney William Consovoy argued that Rep. Richard Neal (D., Mass.) was promoting a “radical view of unchecked congressional power” and that his purposes were political.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 15, 2019 15:21 UTC