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US President Donald Trump’s legal team has filed a flux with a federal appeals court. The motion requests the honorable court to reconsider its last month’s decision to allow the top prosecutor of Manhattan to obtain nearly a decade’s worth of the US president’s business and personal tax returns. The flux filed with the 2^nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. It argues that US District Judge Victor Marrero erred in giving Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance the OK to enforce a Dragnet subpoena into 8-years of Trump’s tax returns with the accounting firm Mazars USA and expand a criminal probe into the president’s business dealings. The filing also argued that Marrero failed to consider the unlimited breadth and scope of Vance’s subpoena.

Point to be noted that Trump’s lawyers said it was largely copied from an earlier subpoena by Congressional Democrats. The filing said, “Subpoenas issued to the President that are ‘arbitrary fishing expeditions’ or that are issued ‘out of malice or an intent to harass’ are invalid”. Trump has fought to release his tax returns since the 2016 campaign trail. He has become the first major-party nominee in 4-decades for not making his returns public. President Trump has repeatedly argued that he was categorically immune from state prosecutors subpoenaing his records. It was an argument the US Supreme Court rejected in the month of July.

The Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr. wrote in the major opinion and wrote, “No citizen, not even the President, is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding. We reaffirm that principle today and hold that the President is neither absolutely immune from state criminal subpoenas seeking his private papers nor entitled to a heightened standard of need”. The Supreme Court did allow the president to object to the scope of Vance’s probe, in spite of rejecting Trump’s immunity claim. It is noteworthy that Marrero rejected to block the subpoena on 20^th August and said, “Justice requires an end to this controversy”.