Appeals court lets emoluments case against Trump continue

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: CNN

Appeals court lets emoluments case against Trump continue
By Erica Orden and Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 6:01 PM ET, Mon August 17, 2020

(CNN) -- An ethics lawsuit against President Donald Trump that argues his business interests are conflicts of interest and violate the US Constitution can continue in federal court, a federal appeals court said Monday.

The lawsuit, the plaintiffs of which include a hotel operator and a group of restaurants, argues that Trump's "vast, complicated and secret" business arrangements violate a constitutional provision, the Emoluments Clause, which bars the president from accepting gifts from foreign governments without the permission of Congress.

This is one of several cases about the Emoluments Clause and whether Trump's business holdings violate it while he serves as President. All have progressed slowly in court and dealt with major questions that courts largely haven't interpreted since the Founding Fathers wrote the anti-corruption clause into the Constitution.

The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday not to take it up, according to a court filing. That means the case can continue in a lower court.

{snip}

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/trump-emoluments/index.html

---

MagicalAuthoritiesHat Retweeted

https://twitter.com/Popehat

Just in: The 2nd Circuit won't rehear en banc one of the Emoluments Clause cases against Trump — a three-judge panel previously revived the case in NY. This tees it up now for Trump/DOJ to file a cert petition with SCOTUS.

Previously: https://buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/donald-trump-hotel-lawsuit-back-emoluments

Link to tweet

[Mr.Bill]

1. Somehow we need to repair our judicial system

so that when a president (or any elected official) is committing a crime it reaches a jury before his term of office is finished.

[cstanleytech]

2. Only way to fix the taint that Moscow Mitch and the Republican Senators have caused is to increase

the size of the varies federal courts as well as SCOTUS and take a page out of the Republicans playbook and ram young liberal progressive justices into the new posts.

[SergeStorms]

4. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Isn't that the old saying? Trump and his battalion of attorneys are second to none at delaying justice.

[Karma13612]

5. 👏👏👍👍so true! n/t

[Cha]

3. KR!