Trump taxes - NY subpoena upheld by Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Major ruling today from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Trump v. Vance holding that federal courts did not have to abstain from considering @realDonaldTrump's challenge to Manhattan DA Vance's subpoena for Trump's pre-Presidential financial records . Three judge panel, in an opinion written by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann, holds that the President is not likely to succeed on the merits of his claim of "temporary immunity" from state criminal investigation so long as he is President:

The President has not persuasively explained why, if executive privilege did not preclude enforcement of the subpoena issued in Nixon, the Mazars subpoena must be enjoined despite seeking no privileged information and bearing no relation to the President’s performance of his official functions. The Nixon Court explained that even the President’s weighty interest in candid and confidential conversations with his advisers could not justify a blanket privilege that would “cut deeply into the guarantee of due process of law and gravely impair the basic function of the courts.” 

This is almost certainly heading to #SCOTUS