Emoluments: Trump's profits from private businesses to get hard look from federal appeals courts

[mucifer]

WASHINGTON – An obscure provision of the Constitution that Donald Trump ridiculed as "this phony Emoluments Clause" will be debated in two federal appeals courts this week, representing yet another legal threat to the embattled president.

Even as impeachment dominates the agenda in Congress and President Trump's personal lawyers ask the Supreme Court to shield his tax returns and financial records from investigators, courts in the District of Columbia and Richmond, Va., will hear arguments that the president routinely receives gifts from foreign and U.S. government officials.

Those two challenges and a third working its way through federal courts in New York focus on the Trump Organization's financial stake in hotels and restaurants, which cater to customers both foreign and domestic with interests before the government Trump heads.

On Monday, that debate will come before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The challengers won the first round in federal district court, forcing Trump's appeal.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/08/emoluments-trumps-businesses-scrutinized-federal-appeals-courts/2619754001/

Looks like trumps lawyers and his pretend lawyers at the DOJ are playing wack a mole.

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. I'd love to see the violation of the Emoluments Clause added

to the Articles of Impeachment, but I guess it can keep until Impeachment 2.0 -- I know there are bigger fish to fry. (I'm a proponent of throwing everything including the gold kitchen sink at the greedy SOB.)

[kentuck]

3. I believe our Founders looked at the Emoluments clause as a "very big fish"/

Because, at the top of their concerns was foreign influence in our elections. The emoluments clause goes right to the heart of that concern.

[scarytomcat]

2. with a nerf hammer

[ancianita]

4. yep...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Whack-a-mole is key to tRumpian litigate-to-death strategy in business & politics. . . . nt

[zentrum]

6. Will all depend on

....who appointed the judges.

Just like our Democracy now depends on the power of the Electoral College.

We're in deep peril.

[Ligyron]

7. Yes.

The forces of evil are far more organized, have far more money and have been at this far longer than we.

But, I get a little sick of hearing how it's too late and that's the way it's going go be. It only will if we let it and good men (and women) do nothing.

It's on us. Act.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Lock him up!!!!!