Trump heads to court in fight over emoluments

[babylonsister]

Trump heads to court in fight over emoluments
By Harper Neidig - 12/08/19 06:03 PM EST



The Trump administration is heading to court this week in two lawsuits charging that the president is violating the Constitution by profiting off of his hotels and other businesses while in office.

The cases revolve around the Constitution’s once-obscure emoluments clauses, which critics say President Trump has flouted, giving foreign diplomats an opening to curry favor with him by patronizing his businesses.

On Monday, a panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments over whether members of Congress can sue the president for alleged emoluments violations, and on Thursday, the full 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments over whether state attorneys general can bring their own case.

The high-stakes arguments come as the president is facing an impeachment inquiry in the House and as he has appealed to the Supreme Court to shield his financial documents in multiple lawsuits.

The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause was included in order to prevent corruption and foreign influence of the federal government. It says that "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Another provision known as the Domestic Emoluments Clause prohibits the president from receiving emoluments from any of the states.

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[Atticus]

1. Are taxpayers funding the defense of Trump while he takes in millions from his

flagrant violation of the emoluments clause?

Is his lease of the building housing his DC hotel even legally permissible?

[PJMcK]

2. Has any president ever and anywhere faced as many lawsuits as this criminal?

How Trump has skated all these years amazes me!

[Tracer]

7. Filing lawsuits is about the only thing IQ45 knows how to do well.

He has participated in over 3,000 lawsuits. It's his go-to method of getting rid of pesky plaintiffs.

[Maraya1969]

3. I would really like to see this added to the articles of impeachment after it goes through

the courts. That was the American people will know about it. I think most of us do not know the extent that this man uses the US government for his own financial benefit.

[abqtommy]

4. For people like tRUMP and the reTHUGS, who are busy packing the courts with sympathetic judges

they sure lose a lot!

[erronis]

15. I'd be really interested to read the pledge-of-allegiance that each new judge needs to sign to dump

I'm sure it's full of the same boilerplate he made his sexual (vs. legal) prostitutes sign.

[kentuck]

5. In violation of the Constitution since Day One.

And very important.

[struggle4progress]

6. "People will need to flush ten or fifteen times"

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Trump stopped tweeting about crooked judges

because by now he's appointed so many of them

[spanone]

9. this guy lives in court.

[getagrip_already]

10. no, he doesn't - his (our) lawyers do.......

He is a coward and a liar. He doesn't appear in court. He spends our money to send lawyers to do it for him.

[Scarsdale]

11. Iwanka and Jared

are "Senior Advisors to the President" Does this apply to them? She has been awarded many, many trademarks, and he has received millions in "loans" from the Saudis.

[RainCaster]

12. The SCOTUS has already ruled that money is free speech

That's exactly what is happening here. Our POTUS is being influenced by money from foreign actors. There is no way that a court should allow this to be acceptable.

[extvbroadcaster]

13. Trump loves going to court

Trump loves going to court - unless they find against him. Then it is all a set up, the judge is prejudiced, he was not treated "fairly" blah blah blah. The idea that he is guilty as sin never enters Trump's mind.

[70sEraVet]

14. Evidence for the Emoluments case is in Zelensky call

On that famous July call, poor Zelensky is falling over himself trying to flatter Trump and get in his good graces. And Zelensky makes a point of saying that when he was in NY he stayed at Trump Tower. Because he knows, like all world leaders know, that the way into Trump's heart is through his wallet.

[onethatcares]

16. what would the teevee look like

if President Obama did the same thing.

Perhaps Chairman Schiff should ask that question of the minority.