Posted on 06/10/2017 12:10:28 PM PDT by ColdOne
Lawyers for the Justice Department are arguing that President Trump isn’t violating a Constitutional provision that bars federal officials from accepting payments from foreign governments because the clause doesn’t apply to certain transactions.
In a new brief asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Trump by ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), DOJ lawyers contend that the foreign emoluments clause doesn’t apply to “fair-market commercial transactions” like payments for hotel rooms and golf club fees, according to Bloomberg.
Trump administration lawyers also argue that CREW and other plaintiffs lack legal standing to bring the case against Trump and that Congress, not the court system, should determine whether Trump is in violation of the emoluments clause.
CREW filed the lawsuit during Trump’s first week in office “to stop President Trump from violating the Constitution by illegally receiving payments from foreign governments."
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The left is pretty much all idiots all the time.
Hillary already proved this can be done, considering the hundreds of millions that went into the Clinton Fund for access to the WH
There are audit implications, but the founders did not expect elected officials to shut down their farms or law practices, nor to exclude foreign clients or customers absent a controlling statute.
Indeed, GW,was,one of the country’s leading distillers.
I'd like to see the results of CREW's investigation of the Clinton foundation... < /sarc >
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