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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEmoluments Lawsuit Moves A Step Closer To Trump
September 15, 201812:08 PM ET
PETER OVERBY
The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia want the legal authority to get any communications between President Trump and officials of foreign or U.S. state governments pertaining to his Trump International Hotel near the White House.
The proposal is one of several for "document discovery" in the historic civil suit against the president. As plaintiffs, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Maryland Attorney General Peter Frosh can seek documents to bolster their complaints. They made their proposals Friday in a filing in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md.
The suit alleges that Trump has violated two anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution: the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars federal officials from accepting gifts or rewards from foreign government officials, and the Domestic Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from accepting benefits from state governments.
U.S. District Court Judge Peter Messitte ruled in July that the attorneys general had legal standing to sue. This is the first emoluments case in American history to go to trial.
The attorneys general also want to obtain:
records covering the hotel's business with foreign government officials;
records of cash going from the hotel to the Trump revokable trust that holds the hotel, and then to Trump;
documents from the federal General Services Administration, which leases the hotel building to the Trump hotel corporation, and from the U.S. Treasury, which handles the lease payments.
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https://www.npr.org/2018/09/15/648160089/emoluments-lawsuit-moves-a-step-closer-to-trump
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Emoluments Lawsuit Moves A Step Closer To Trump (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2018
OP
Another first. First CORRUPTION clause accusation to go to trial. Hope fox covers that! Deplorables
Fred Sanders
Sep 2018
#3
rurallib
(62,420 posts)1. YAY!
Pluvious
(4,311 posts)2. KnR - LOCK HIM UP !!
Shine the light of discovery on that cockroach.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. Another first. First CORRUPTION clause accusation to go to trial. Hope fox covers that! Deplorables
want to know if the swamp is being drained or not!
I expect "fake courts" to be the next salvo hurled at the braindead Cult as explanation.