Article snippet: An outside lawyer for MORE argued Friday that Democrats can't legally request Trump's tax returns and said that the IRS shouldn't provide the information to Congress until it receives an opinion for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. "Caution and deliberation are essential to ensure that the Treasury Department does not erode the constitutional separation of powers or the Tax Code’s 'core purpose of protecting taxpayer privacy,' ... — protections that safeguard not just the President, but all Americans," William Consovoy, a lawyer at Consovoy McCarthy Park in Arlington, Va., said in a letter to the Treasury Department's general counsel. Trump would not comment on the letter when asked during a visit to the southern border, but scoffed at Democratic efforts to obtain his tax information. “Nothing whatsoever. Nothing whatsoever. I have nothing to say about it. I got elected. They elected me, now they keep going. I'm under audit. When you're under audit, you don't do it,” he told reporters. The letter marks the start of Trump's formal effort to fight Democrats' request for his tax filings. The president has already made comments to reporters indicating that he did not want to comply with Democrats' request. Trump is the first president in decades to refuse to voluntarily release his tax returns. He has cited a longtime IRS audit, though the IRS has said that audits don't prevent people from making their own tax information public. House Ways and Mea... Link to the full article to read more