New York Attorney General Letitia James wants President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against her and another state official over the disclosure of his state tax returns to Congress to be thrown out or at the very least heard in federal court in Manhattan instead of Washington, D.C., attorneys for her office said in a new court filing Friday.

Attorneys for James and state Tax Commissioner Michael Schmidt wrote in a motion to dismiss the lawsuit that the federal court in Washington, D.C., doesn’t have personal jurisdiction over them and wouldn’t be the right venue to litigate Trump’s claims.

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