BALDWIN: Here's the breaking news now. Lawyers for President Trump have just filed a lawsuit over California's tax transparency law. The law requires candidates for president, that they must release five years of income tax returns in order to be placed on the state primary ballot in 2020. California's governor was quick to respond to the suit with this tweet. Let me read this from Governor Newsome. He said, quote, "There's an easy fix, Mr. President. Release your tax returns as you promised during the campaign and follow the precedent of every president since 1973." CNN justice correspondent, Jessica Schneider, is with me now. And is this part of the president's effort to just stop any efforts for him to release his tax returns?</s>JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: It is, Brooke. This is really the latest move from the president and his legal team. They're battling against releasing his tax returns really on multiple fronts. Including, of course, just minutes ago in California, the president filing that latest lawsuit asking the federal judge in California to stop that just signed California law that requires all candidates for president to disclose five years of tax returns in order to get on the primary ballot. Now, the president's lawyers, in this latest lawsuit filing, they're calling the law unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment. Their primary argument is because the Constitution specifically sets forth the qualifications for president and vice president, that neither California nor any other state can add onto those qualifications.
Trump Sues California over Law that Requires Candidates to Disclose Tax Returns.