President Donald J. Trump’s attorneys have filed a 119-page brief with New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, asking it to overturn a civil fraud finding against him. 

The request Wednesday comes despite a prior appellate ruling that had already delivered a significant financial victory for Trump.

That earlier ruling had eliminated a roughly $500 million financial judgment against Trump and his family business but left intact the underlying fraud determination. 

A Manhattan trial judge had previously found that Trump, his two eldest sons and several business associates deliberately misrepresented his net worth and the value of his real estate holdings to secure better terms from banks and insurance companies.

While Trump’s legal team praised the lower appeals court for discarding what it called an excessive financial penalty, attorneys are now pushing the Court of Appeals to go further by overturning the fraud finding entirely and lifting a ban that bars Trump and the sons from holding officer roles in New York-based companies for up to three years. The restrictions also prohibit Trump, a New York real estate magnate before becoming president, and his business entities from seeking loans from financial institutions with New York branches during that same period.

Trump’s attorneys asked the court to “put an end to this legally deficient case.” 

They also accused New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, of pursuing the lawsuit for political reasons rather than legal ones. They characterized Trump as a victim of selective prosecution driven by James’s public statements and her prior campaign pledge to investigate him.

The removal of the financial penalty by the lower appeals court was a notable legal victory for the President. However, the fraud finding itself, and the professional restrictions that accompanied it, remains a lingering consequence his team is still working to erase.