{"id":104262,"date":"2019-07-24T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104262"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:01:09","slug":"attorney-general-james-responds-to-president-trumps-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104262","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General James Responds to President Trump\u2019s Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James-599x900.jpg 599w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Attorney-General-Letitia-James-400x601.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption>Attorney General Letitia James<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>AG James Will Vigorously Defend Law Shedding Light on President&#8217;s Finances<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Letitia James today\u00a0released the following statement after President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against her, the U.S. House\u00a0Committee on Ways and Means, and\u00a0Commissioner of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance\u00a0Michael Schmidt over the passage of New York&#8217;s TRUST Act that would allow state officials to access the president&#8217;s tax returns if they were already requested by the federal government:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump has spent his career hiding behind&nbsp;lawsuits, but, as New York\u2019s chief law enforcement officer, I can assure him that no one is above the law \u2014 not even the president of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe TRUST Act will shine a light on the president\u2019s finances and finally offer transparency to millions of Americans yearning to know the truth. We have all the confidence that this law is legal and we will vigorously defend it against any court challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG James Will Vigorously Defend Law Shedding Light on President&#8217;s Finances Attorney General Letitia James today\u00a0released the following statement after President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against her, the U.S. House\u00a0Committee on Ways and Means, and\u00a0Commissioner of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance\u00a0Michael Schmidt over the passage of New York&#8217;s TRUST Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}