(CNN) -- President Donald Trump filed an amended complaint Monday in New York federal court to argue that the Manhattan district attorney's subpoena for his financial records is "wildly overbroad" and was issued in "bad faith" -- his latest attempt to block access to such records as part of a criminal inquiry.
The amended lawsuit is Trump's effort to block the subpoena to his accounting firm after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that a president does not have complete immunity from a state grand jury investigation.
In the filing, Trump's lawyers said the subpoena, which seeks eight years of tax returns and other financial records from his longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, "is so sweeping that it amounts to an unguided and unlawful 'fishing expedition' into the President's personal financial and business dealings" and argued that it reaches beyond the scope of District Attorney Cy Vance's jurisdiction.
Because the grand jury subpoena is based on a similar subpoena from the House Oversight Committee to Mazars, Trump's lawyers said, instead of being tailored to Vance's investigation, it was "overbroad and sought irrelevant records."
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/politics/trump-vance-subpoena-taxes/index.html
