A federal appeals court panel rejected President Trump’s challenge to a Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena for his financial records, including his tax returns, the latest loss for the president in a series of recent legal battles which includes a defeat at the Supreme Court this summer.
Circuit Judges Pierre Leval, Robert Katzmann, and Raymond Lohier of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a 35-page opinion on Wednesday shooting down the Justice Department and siding with Cyrus Vance, the district attorney of New York County, tossing out the president’s efforts to continue the fight within the appeals court by dismissing the Trump legal team’s effort to push for a second amended complaint in the protracted legal battle and upholding a district court ruling.
