Trump’s attorneys on Thursday filed a petition to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court over their ongoing battle for the president’s tax returns with prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office after being struck down by a New York court of appeals earlier this month.
Thursday's petition is the fastest moving and the first to reach the highest court of the country out of the president's several ongoing fights to quash a widening effort from multiple fronts seeking his financial records.
"We have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the Second Circuit decision regarding a subpoena issued by the New York County District Attorney," the president’s lead counsel, Jay Sekulow, told ABC News in a statement. "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."