In a ruling Monday morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied President Donald Trump's request for a preliminary injunction protecting him from a grand jury subpoena for his tax returns.

The court in an opinion written by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann rejected the notion that the president is immune from all state criminal processes.

"After reviewing historical and legal precedent, we conclude only that presidential immunity does not bar the enforcement of a state grand jury subpoena directing a third party to produce non‐privileged material, even when the subject matter under investigation pertains to the president," Katzmann wrote.