A US appeals court has paved the way for Congress to access over 8 years of Trump’s tax returns

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• A US appeals court has on Wednesday brought Democrats one step closer to shedding light on President Donald Trump's business interests and how he built his fortune.
• An 8-3 vote by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit declined to revisit an October decision backing a House subpoena issued to Trump's accounting firm for his financial records.
• Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said the president would appeal to the US Supreme Court, which could delay the process. 
• Trump has broken with a decades-old convention of presidential candidates releasing their tax returns publicly.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court said on Wednesday it would not revisit an October decision backing a U.S. House of Representatives subpoena issued to President Donald Trump's accounting firm for his financial records.

The 8-3 vote by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, declining the Republican president's request to rehear arguments that the subpoena to Mazars LLP was illegitimate, brings Democrats closer to shedding light on his business interests and how he built his fortune.

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