President Trump’s lawyers on Monday filed a new legal challenge against the Manhattan district attorney’s subpoena for his tax returns, telling a federal court in a complaint that it "amounts to harassment of the President." The legal team contends that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. overstepped his legal authority by asking for eight years of tax returns and financial documents from Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP.

"This is not a straightforward request to review specific business transitions; it is an overreaching demand designed to pick apart the President and each related entity from the inside out, without regard to the geographic limits of the District Attorney’s jurisdiction or the scope of the grand jury’s investigation," Trump's legal team said in a complaint.

Prosecutors now have until Aug. 10 to respond to the new challenge.

The new complaint comes after the Supreme Court made a landmark decision on Trump’s financial records. In a 7-2 ruling on July 9, the Court decided that Trump is not immune from legal probes of his personal and business dealings while in the White House.

Vance had issued the subpoena to Mazars in September. In response, Trump’s legal team filed a lawsuit against the district attorney’s office.

Vance’s office is currently trying to determine whether Trump illegally made two hush-money payments to women who had affairs with Trump. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to paying $130,000 to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election season. Trump has denied involvement in the hush-money payments, which would be considered a violation of campaign finance laws.

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