BuzzFeed – Lawsuit alleges that President Trump’s foreign business interests are leading to constitutional violations. “These violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause pose a grave threat to the United States and its citizens,” the lawsuit claims.
The first major lawsuit against President Trump’s alleged business conflicts is being filed by some of the nation’s top legal and ethics scholars on Monday, a liberal watchdog group announced Sunday evening.
“Never before have the people of the United States elected a President with business interests as vast, complicated, and secret as those of Donald J. Trump,” the lawsuit to be filed on behalf of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) alleges, “creating countless conflicts of interest, as well as unprecedented influence by foreign governments.”
The lawsuit — a copy of which was reviewed by BuzzFeed News on Sunday evening — alleges violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause violations that it claims “pose a grave threat to the United States and its citizens.”
Under the constitutional provision, “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
The lawsuit asks the federal court to issue a declaratory judgment defining elements of the Foreign Emoluments Clause — specifically issuing a judgment that Trump’s business interests do or will violate the clause — and an injunction barring Trump from violating the clause.
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