Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked a court not to allow Congress to obtain his tax records, arguing the Department of Justice should not have reversed itself on the matter last week. The department’s Office of Legal Opinion said in a memorandum last week that tax officials must hand over the records to a congressional panel because the panel’s demand for the documents serves a legitimate legislative purpose. That was a shift from 2019, when the Department of Justice backed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after he declined to give the returns to Congress, asserting that the attempt by the House Ways and Means Committee was partisan and lacked a legitimate legislative purpose. Trump’s lawyers noted that Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the panel, has said before that he wanted the tax returns made public, and other Democrats have suggested that the returns could contain damaging information, including some sort …