President Donald Trump is suing the House Ways and Means Committee and New York state officials to prevent his state tax returns from being turned over to the congressional committee.

The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Washington, seeks an injunction to block a new state law.

The law, which went into effect earlier this month, would allow the Democratic-controlled House and Ways Means Committee to obtain the returns.

This is the latest legal front on which Trump is battling House Democrats.

The committee sued the Treasury Department and IRS officials this month in an attempt to enforce a law that allows its chairman to obtain any taxpayer's returns.

The administration and the president's business have repeatedly tried to stall Democrats' investigations by filing lawsuits and by not cooperating.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have been trying to obtain a copy of the president's federal tax returns, only to be stonewalled by the IRS. Democrats believe Trump's tax returns could show evidence of business dealings that put the president in a negative light.

The law doesn't pertain to an official's federal tax return, but because New York is Trump's home state and headquarters for many of his businesses, much of the same information would appear on his state tax return.

The New York Times reported in May that Trump's businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, based on tax information the newspaper acquired. New York's new law wouldn't authorize the disclosure of Trump's returns in any of the years described in the Times report.

Previous Albany legislation aimed at getting Trump to release his taxes was blocked in the then-Republican-controlled state Senate last year. Democrats now control the chamber thanks to gains in last November's elections.

The New York bill wouldn't make Trump's returns public, but Congress could potentially decide to do so.

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Information from the Associated Press was used in this story.