Misusing the foreign emoluments clause to fulfill the Left’s obstructionist agenda.
Joseph Klein January 24, 2017 8
The left wing group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) is taking the lead in filing a lawsuit “alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his hotels and other business operations to accept payments from foreign governments,” according to the New York Times. The Trump-haters’ tiresome efforts to delegitimize the Trump presidency goes on.
Leading funders of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics include groups affiliated with George Soros. Previously run by Hillary Clinton’s attack dog, David Brock, CREW’s chairman today is Norman Eisen, who is one of the leading lawyers on the anti-Trump case. Eisen had “bundled” donations between $200,000 and $500,000 from other contributors for Obama in 2008, for which he was rewarded with an appointment as special advisor to former President Obama for “ethics.”
The provision in the Constitution the plaintiffs are relying on to press their case, filed in the Southern District of New York, is known as the Foreign Emoluments Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8), which states: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And 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.”......To Read More.....
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