Trump scores a victory in bicoastal battle over tax returns
(WorldNews Politics)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - President Donald Trump`s efforts to keep his tax returns private played out on both coasts Thursday, with a California judge handing him an initial victory and his lawyers in New York City arguing that federal prosecutors there are trying `to harass` him by seeking the documents. On the West Coast, a federal judge in Sacramento granted the Trump campaign`s request to block a new California law that requires presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns to run in the state`s March 2020 primaries. State officials are deciding whether to appeal. The ruling came hours after the president sued to block New York prosecutors from their push to obtain his...