U.S. judge, declined on Thursday, to fast-track a congressional suit trying to compel divulgence of President Donald Trump’s government tax returns, saying it was a complex and significant matter that ought not to have surged.

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden in Washington stated in a written order, that under U.S. law, there was “only small set of cases that must leap and addressed first,” and that the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee had not demonstrated its case was one such case.

He also stated that while he was not presuming the case, Trump’s defenses “appear to be probably not going to be so insignificant as to legitimize hurry to the benefits of the case.” The Reuters reported.

The Ways and Means Committee is one of the U.S. chief tax-writing committees of the House of Representatives. It is the primary source of legislation regarding matters such as tax assessment, customs tariffs, and international trade agreements.

As reported by the Reuters, on the Aug. 20 filing, the Democratic-led House Ways and Means board stated that “time can only tell” how the case resolves it took a month ago looking to urge the Treasury Department to hand over long periods of the Republican president’s personal and business government federal tax returns.

Justices for the Committee in the filing stated that the present Congress would end on Jan. 3, 2021, and that a brief resolution of matters in the case was required to give the Committee sufficient time to examine Trump’s tax returns and pass any law in accordance.

The Department of Justice attorneys, in correspondence with Trump’s legal advisors, had proposed an arranged way to deal with hearing arguments for the lawsuit that drew complaints from the House board’s legal group.

The Committee documented the case after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin opposed congressional subpoenas looking for the profits, notwithstanding a government law that says the department “will provide” such records on solicitation.

The law trial started what is broadly expected to be a long fight in court liable to end in the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Justice Department stated in a counseling legal opinion in June that the council came up short on an “authentic legislative plan” in soliciting for Trump’s tax returns, and that Mnuchin, hence, did not break the law by declining to provide them.

One of Trump’s legal counselors, Jay Sekulow, called the Committee’s’ endeavours “presidential harassment” a month ago.

According to the Reuters, before President Trump took office; the U.S. presidential candidates generally disclosed their tax returns while campaigning. The White House is declining to participate with the majority of them, setting up a few fights in court unfurling in the courts.