Article snippet: The Trump administration, along with the president and several of his business entities, on Friday filed a motion to dismiss House Democrats’ lawsuit on MORE’s federal tax returns. The administration and Trump are arguing that the House Ways and Means Committee can't conscript the federal courts to take its side in a dispute with the executive branch over a congressional demand for information. The motion was expected. The administration had said in previous court filings that it had planned to file a motion to dismiss the case, raising issues about whether the court has the authority to resolve the dispute over Trump's tax returns. The administration's motion was filed after Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee in federal district court in Washington, D.C., last week denied Democrats' motion to expedite the case and denied Democrats' motion for summary judgment as premature. The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee filed the lawsuit in July in an effort to get the court to order the Treasury Department and IRS to comply with their requests and subpoenas for six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns. The lawsuit names the Treasury Department, IRS and the leaders of those agencies as defendants. Trump and his businesses were later added to the case as intervenor-defendants, meaning they also have the opportunity to be heard in the case. The motion to dismiss, which was filed in federal court in D.C., was more than 70 pages long, including... Link to the full article to read more