On July 30, all three sides in the lawsuit Trump v Committee on Ways & Means and Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, submitted a statement of how to proceed. The case was filed by President Trump to stop New York state from giving a copy of his state income tax return to the Chair of the Ways & Means Committee. The case is in U.S. District Court in D.C.

New York state attorneys say the President should have filed his case in a U.S. District Court in New York state, not D.C. The President asks the court to order the Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee to give at least two weeks notice if he does decide to ask for the return. And the Chair of the Ways & Means Committee argues that it would violate Article One, Section 6, for the Court to enjoin any congressional action. That part of the Constitution says, in part, “They (members of Congress) shall be privileged from Arrest…for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.”

On July 30, Rocky De La Fuente filed a federal lawsuit against the new California law that says no one can be on a presidential primary ballot unless he or she reveals the last five years of federal income tax returns. De La Fuente v Padilla, s.d., 3:19cv-1433. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan, a semi-retired Clinton appointee. Here is the 18-page Complaint. It says that De La Fuente intends to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2020. He had filed with the FEC as a candidate for the Republican nomination in May 2019.

On July 30, the Indianapolis Board of Elections refused to put John Schmitz on the ballot as an independent candidate for Mayor, because some of the people who signed his petition listed their current residence address, instead of the address listed on their voter registration form. See this story.