President Donald Trump and his campaign committee filed suit in federal court Tuesday to block California’s new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax filings.

The lawsuit is no surprise, as the president’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said shortly after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the tax legislation into law on July 30 that the measure “will be answered in court.”

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