In their petition, Trump’s team of lawyers argued that the Manhattan DA’s office to get his tax return from the accounting firm was “politically motivated.”
“That the Constitution would empower thousands of state and local prosecutors to embroil the president in criminal proceedings is unimaginable. Indeed, politically motivated subpoenas like this one are a perfect illustration of why a sitting president should be categorically immune from state criminal process,” the President’s lawyers argued in the petition.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is investigating the alleged hush money payments to women including porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed they had sexual affair with Trump before the 2016 presidential election.
Trump loses in separate cases over his tax returns
The President is also engage in a legal fight against the U.S. House Oversight Committee, which also issued a subpoena to get his tax returns from Mazars.
On Wednesday, the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. denied Trump’s request to hear its petition to reconsider a ruling by a three-judge panel that the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena was “valid and enforceable.”
