President Donald Trump filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Manhattan District Attorney’s office from enforcing a grand jury subpoena to obtain eight years of his tax returns from Mazars USA.
Trump escalated his legal battle with the Manhattan DA’s office after a three-judge panel for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s decision presidential immunity does not prohibit the enforcement of a subpoena.
In a statement, Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers representing the President in the case said his team petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the appeals court.
Trump’s lawyers argue that the appeals court’s ruling is “wrong” and “dangerous”
According to Sekulow, “The Second Circuit decision is wrong and should be reversed. In our petition, we assert that the subpoena violates the U.S. Constitution and therefore is unenforceable. We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will grant review in this significant constitutional case and reverse the dangerous and damaging decision of the appeals court.”
