Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump

[former9thward]

Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government.

The court instructed the lower courts to wipe away previous lower court opinions that went against Trump because he is no longer in office. It leaves unresolved a novel question raised in the case because Trump, unlike other presidents, did not use a blind trust when he assumed the presidency, but instead continued to retain an interest in his businesses and let those businesses take money from foreign and domestic governments.

The order was issued without comment or dissent.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/emoluments-supreme-court-donald-trump-case/index.html

I predicted this when these cases were started and was flamed.

[onenote]

1. What exactly did you predict?

That the cases would be dismissed as moot after Trump was defeated?

[former9thward]

2. That the cases would go nowhere

The emoluments clause is something most law professors don't know or barely know is there. It has not been seriously litigated in 230 years.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. "Justice delayed is justice denied" should not be a recipe for avoiding work by judges.

[dansolo]

4. How can they wipe out lower Court rulings?

He was still President at the time those cases were decided on. They did this to be able to rule in Trumps favor without having to actually make an argument. How is this even allowed? Even if they vacate any possible penalties, the precedent should still stand.

[former9thward]

5. The Supreme Court is called than because it is supreme.

Article III, Section 1

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish

The Constitution says all courts below the Supreme court are "inferior". Therefore the SC has the power to void any decisions made by those courts.