Posted on 03/22/2018 6:45:36 PM PDT by usafa92
A summons has been issued to President Trump in a lawsuit alleging he is violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
The lawsuit filed by the attorneys general in Washington, D.C., and Maryland alleges that Trump is violating the clause, which prevents elected officials from receiving gifts or benefits from foreign governments without Congresss approval, WAMU reported.
The lawsuit is filed against Trump in his "official capacity and in his individual capacity," according to the Washington, D.C., radio station.
The lawsuit also argues that businesses in Maryland and D.C. have been hurt because groups instead choose to stay at Trump's properties in attempts to get in his good favor. Last year, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from a liberal watchdog organization arguing that Trump was violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
Judge George Daniels of the U.S. District Court for the District of New York dismissed the case on lack of standing, agreeing with Trumps lawyers argument that the claims do not fall within the interests of the emoluments clause and should be resolved through the political process," according to the ruling.
Trump has said his business interests would be put in a blind trust managed by his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
Critics and watchdog groups have expressed concerns that foreign officials can patronize Trump's business to curry favor with the president.
Trump's lawyers must respond to the summons three weeks, according to WAMU.
Didn’t Clinton use the Lincoln bedroom as an inducement?
they’re not staying at Trump hotels to garner his favor, they’re boycotting the other hotels because they’re owned by liberal crybabies
Of course, these people where nowhere to be found when Clinton was lining her pockets from her position as Secretary of State.
I believe instead of profiting from his position as president, the Trump is taking a financial hit to help the country retreat from the brink of democRAT destruction.
The state DAs are nothing but a bunch of media whores and more upper echelon political wannabes.
They are in collusion with other States Attorney Generals such as Schneiderman (NY), the one in Hawaii, and of course the California Marxist Becerra, to attack Pres. Trump and his administration at every turn.
There have been articles of leftist State AGs’ forming an organization to do just that.
THe same for State Secretaries of State, a very powerful position if you want to rig elections as was the apparent cause of the Al Frank “victory” (illegally hidden ballots) over Sen. Norman Coleman (R-Minn).
Scratch a few of these State Secretaries of State and see who they are playing ball with. You might find George Soros at third or directly from the dugout.
While father Joe was negotiating a notoriously favorable to China and bad for the US trade agreement , Hunter and his buddy were getting the Chinese to invest 1.5 Billion dollars in a new, Biden start up venture that was skirting US national security law to allow the Chinese to purchase sensitive nuclear and defense companies using dubious, sweetheart CIFUS rulings to skirt restrictions on foreign access to US defense and nuclear technology.
Ooooooh! A summons!
WE have language rules here? Or, do just some of us have language rules?
In all my life I have never seen such overt evil as I do in the MSM and politics now. Holy Father , protect our President, protect us , and deliver us from evil.
Yeah, but not correctly.
Didnt Trump divest himself from his businesses and properties before he took the oath to avoid these sorts of suits?
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