Trump to ask Supreme Court to stop lawsuit claiming president profits unlawfully from D.C. hotel
President Trump will ask the Supreme Court to halt a lawsuit against him brought by Maryland and Washington D.C. alleging that he has violated the Constitution's emoluments clauses.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier in the day that the suit against the president over his Washington hotel property could proceed. The vote of the deeply divided appeals court was 9-6. The Constitution bars presidents from receiving emoluments, an archaic word for types of payments, from foreign governments or U.S. states. Trump's attorneys have argued that the obscure constitutional provisions at issue do not apply to commercial transactions like booking hotel stays.
"The President has not explained, nor do we see, how requests pertaining to spending at a private restaurant and hotel threaten any Executive Branch prerogative," she wrote.In both decisions, judges ruled along partisan lines, with Democratic appointees siding with Maryland and D.C. and Republican appointees siding with Trump.
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