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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: A judge just ruled Dems can sue Trump for allegedly violating Foreign Emoluments Clause.
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MORE non-Kavanaugh news: A judge just ruled that congressional Democrats (Sen. Richard Blumenthal is the lead plaintiff) have standing to sue Trump for allegedly violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause. More soon
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A federal judge on Friday gave the go-ahead to a lawsuit filed by 200 congressional Democrats against President Trump alleging that he has violated the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments while in office.
The lawsuit is based on the Constitutions emoluments clause, which bars presidents from taking payments from foreign states. Trumps business, which he still owns, has hosted foreign embassy events and visiting foreign officials at its downtown D.C. hotel. The decision opens up yet another legal front for the president, who is now facing an array of inquiries into his business, his campaign and his charity.
Trump is already facing a separate emoluments suit filed by the attorneys general of Washington, D.C. and Maryland that is moving forward. In addition, he is contending with the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian interference, a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General that alleged persistently illegal conduct at his charitable foundation, and a defamation lawsuit brought by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congressional-democrats-lawsuit-alleging-trumps-private-business-is-violating-the-constitution-can-proceed-federal-judge-rules/2018/09/28/0aa3c5dc-bc22-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html?utm_term=.091ec57f1aa2
Roland99
(53,342 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)Other parts could be ruled on later, if necessary. Probably a moot point though.
Note: I think!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But Trump probably moved to dismiss the lawsuit on several grounds (among those may have been standing, lack of statutory authority, separation of powers). For now, the judge has denied the motion to dismiss on one or more grounds (I would guess standing), and will allow the lawsuit to proceed while deferring a ruling on the other grounds. The motion to dismiss will continue to hang over the litigation, but for now Trump will probably have to answer the complaint, and the discovery phase of the lawsuit will go forward (including exchange of documents, propounding interrogatories, and depositions).
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Rec
quakerboy
(13,921 posts)Now they will vote k in even if they have to literally hold a gun to the last couple senators heads to get it done.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)diva77
(7,656 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)In his discussion, the judge makes mention of President Obama's Nobel Prize. I hope someone shows this to Trump.
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peggysue2
(10,839 posts)We're going to win this thing. We're going to cut the cancer out with a very sharp, legal scalpel, followed by a bone saw to grind out then pulverize the disease from the body politic.
Because the Rule of Law is still standing strong. And these suckers have had their day!
Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Oppaloopa
(867 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)It opens the door for RWNJs to do the same to our next Democratic President.
Remember what they did to Obama? They tried to put him in a straitjacket.
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Duh.
Rush to shoehorn a partisan tool onto the Supreme Court, in spite of his being unfit due to lying, temperament, partiality, and probable sexual assaulter, just to protect a lying, sexist, racist, probably treasonous, sexual assaulter in our White House.
The Greedy Old Perverts are a criminal organization.
benld74
(9,909 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)that he must give a deposition in the Summer Zervos assault case that Gloria Allred is helping her bring before the court. His dementia is going to be soaring into the ethers. Investigations coming out all over the place.