Article snippet: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rejected House Democrats' effort to speed up their lawsuit over their request for MORE's federal tax returns. "It may be appropriate to expedite this matter at some point, but not now," Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, said in a seven-page memorandum. The House Ways and Means Committee last month filed a lawsuit to get a court to order the Treasury Department and IRS to comply with its requests and subpoenas for six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns. Earlier this month, the committee filed a motion for summary judgment, asking McFadden to direct the administration to provide it with the requested tax returns. And the committee asked McFadden to expedite the case. The Trump administration opposed the committee's motion to expedite, and urged McFadden to have its forthcoming motion to dismiss the case considered before any summary judgment motion by the committee. The administration's motion to dismiss is expected to raise questions about whether the court has the authority to resolve the dispute. McFadden gave several reasons for denying the committee's motion to expedite, as well as denying the motion for summary judgment as premature but allowing it to refile at a later time. "To be sure, this is no ordinary case, but the weighty constitutional issues and political ramifications it presents militate in favor of caution and deliberation, not haste," McFadden said in his order. "And the Co... Link to the full article to read more