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Democrats subpoena Trump businesses in Emoluments Clause lawsuit

Lawyers for more than 200 Democratic members of Congress have served subpoenas to President Trump’s businesses as part of their lawsuit alleging Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause.

The Democrats said in a press release that they have issued 37 judicial subpoenas to Trump’s private businesses, including the Trump Organization, seeking information on payments from foreign governments.

The announcement came just hours after the Department of Justice (DOJ) asked a federal appeals court to block the lawsuit from advancing, following a district judge's ruling last month that the proceedings could move forward.

The DOJ and the Trump Organization did not immediately reply to requests for comment from The Hill.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that the lawmakers “are seeking a targeted set of documents to obtain the information that we need to ensure that the President can no longer shirk his constitutional responsibility.”

“Thanks to the good work of the press, we already know of foreign emoluments that President Trump has and is receiving — we simply don’t yet know the full scope of his lawbreaking,” Blumenthal continued. “Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is still seeking to delay, delay, delay, but we are confident that the D.C. Circuit will recognize the well-reasoned logic of the district court, and allow discovery to proceed.”

And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said that Trump “has flagrantly ignored the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, but we do not yet know the extent of his violations.”

“We are taking an important step towards obtaining key documents to understand the full scope of Trump’s foreign business dealings,” Nadler said in a statement.

The group of more than 200 Democratic lawmakers first filed the lawsuit more than two years ago, alleging that Trump was violating the Emoluments Clause by continuing to profit from foreign governments while in office. The Constitution states that Congress must vote on any gifts a president receives from foreign officials.

But the Justice Department has fought back, arguing that the lawmakers can’t sue in the first place and that their interpretation of the clause is incorrect.

D.C. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee, has sided with the Democrats so far in ruling that the lawsuit can advance.

But lawyers for the DOJ filed a motion with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier Monday, asking the higher court to block the lawsuit from advancing and potentially dismiss it altogether.

House Democrats have sought Trump’s private financial records as part of their congressional oversight, but the president has sued to try to block them from getting their hands on the documents.

The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.), also filed a lawsuit last week to compel the Treasury Department to hand over Trump's federal tax returns.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...-clause-lawsuit

Such Presidential harassment...

President Trump scored a big win on Wednesday when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to throw out a case that accused him of violating the Constitution through earnings from D.C. businesses including the Trump International Hotel.

The lawsuit, brought by the attorneys general of Maryland and Washington, D.C., claimed that earnings from the hotel and its related businesses violated prohibitions against receiving benefits from foreign governments, the U.S., or individual states. The Fourth Circuit declared that Maryland and D.C. lacked standing to bring the case in the first place, and ordered the lower court to dismiss the complaint.

“Unanimous decision in my favor from The United States Court of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit on the ridiculous Emoluments Case."

-President of the United States of America

Donald Trump

You always like your own posts?

ATTORNEYS GENERAL SHOCKED AT COURT'S DECISION TO ALLOW DONALD TRUMP TO 'BRAZENLY' PROFIT FROM PRESIDENCY

Attorneys general from Maryland and the District of Columbia are decrying an appeals court's decision to dismiss their emoluments lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, which they believe adds support to the notion that the president can benefit financially from his private business without substantial checks and balances.

In a statement to Newsweek, a spokesperson for Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, two of the leading plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Trump is improperly profiting from his position as president through his private business, said that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals "got it wrong" in Wednesday's decision.

"Although the court described a litany of ways in which this case is unique, it failed to acknowledge the most extraordinary circumstance of all: President Trump is brazenly profiting from the Office of the President in ways that no other President in history ever imagined and that the founders expressly sought—in the Constitution—to prohibit," the spokesperson said in a written statement.

"We have not and will not abandon our efforts to hold President Trump accountable for violating the Nation's original anti-corruption laws," the statement continued.

The lawsuit concerns the president's real estate empire and whether businesses in Maryland and the District of Columbia have lost revenue as a result of having to compete with the high-profile network of Trump Organization hotels, a prominence only made possible by Trump's ascent to the presidency and his company's decision to accept bookings from foreign entities.

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice, which is representing Trump in multiple emoluments lawsuits, said in a written statement to Newsweek that it is "pleased that the Fourth Circuit unanimously decided to dismiss this extraordinarily flawed case."

"The court correctly determined that the plaintiffs improperly asked the courts to exceed their constitutional role by reviewing the President's compliance with the Emoluments Clauses," Justice Department spokesperson Kelly Laco said.

The plaintiffs could ask the full roster of Fourth Circuit judges to review the panel's decision or ask the Supreme Court to take up the case. A spokesperson for the plaintiffs would not confirm to Newsweek what they planned to do in response to Wednesday's decision.

The decision originated from a complicated series of legal maneuvers by which the plaintiffs tried to keep the case out of the appellate court's jurisdiction, a strategy that proved unsuccessful after Trump's lawyers managed to get the Fourth Circuit to intervene about a claim unrelated to Wednesday's decision: whether or not the president, in his personal capacity, is absolutely immune from such lawsuits.

The Fourth Circuit used the immunity question as an opportunity to review the underlying groundwork for the case, whether or not the District of Columbia and Maryland are even able to sue under the Constitution's Emoluments Clause in the first place. Rejecting the trial judge's findings, the three-judge panel found that the plaintiffs did not have standing and decided to dismiss the case.

There are currently two other emoluments lawsuits playing out in federal court against the president, neither of which has yet gone to discovery.

https://www.newsweek.com/attorney-general-response-emoluments-donald-trump-1448590

So the court tossed the case for lack of standing? What a crock of crap! Who has the standing to enforce the constitution? Trump getting away with high crimes and people like 40 support and cheer him on... Murica.

$108 million on golf trips to his Mar A Loser golf club alone.
That should be enough to toss him. Yet here we are.

And they were right to rule against the Maryland and DC.. They couldn't prove people went to his hotel to please him. I mean to specifically please him.

But over 100 Million spent at Trump properties for his gold outings in 2.5 years? Yeah, that's a problem

No, just 40 shaking his head at your constant accusations without merit.

Collusion?
Obstruction?
Impeachment?
Jarrod going to jail?
Emoluments?
and so many others...

Yep, just shaking his head.

First off, we don't know the results on the Collusion question...

We do know that the Mueller report showed 10 instances of obstruction and that he left it to Congress to act on them. They are trying to but Trump's DOJ keeps Obstructing to stop it.

Impeachment is the action that is offered as a remedy for Crimes committed by the President... he's not being investigated for Impeachment... Is your brain functioning at all? Or is everything you know brought to you via FOX?

It's Jared? What's him going to jail about?

Emoluments weren't able to be proven in the case that MD and DC brought up, but there is no way you can ignore over $100 Million dollars spent at his various clubs... That's your money he's spending.

Obama was beat on for spending $92 Million over 8 years on vacations, yet I don't see you complaining about over $100 million spent by Trump on Golf vacations.

When Obama went on vacation, he didn't benefit from those vacations financially. Trump is doing just that. that's the very reason for the Emoluments clause in the first place. The founding fathers understood that was a real possibility and put something in place to be able to stop them.

Yet you find nothing wrong with that..

If trump pooped on your lawn, you'd probably go grab it and have it bronzed...

Let's not forget how Trump doesn't want to protect the US election process from the Russians. He also attacks all his own intelligence agencies whenever they talk about the Ruskies helping Trump get elected. Yep - nothing to see here! LOL

What do you call a clown that lives in a butt?

OCD?

I'd ask Putin to type IQ45's name, but this website doesn't support Cyrillic typeset.