WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump spent four years unsuccessfully trying to shake off lawsuits that accused him of violating the US Constitution by refusing to divest from his business interests while in office.Trump never faced legal consequences for keeping a financial stake in his Washington, DC, hotel and other businesses that reportedly profited from their connection to a sitting president.
Both cases were filed in 2017 and spent years winding through the courts as judges wrangled with the thorny and largely unprecedented legal questions about what kind of legal exposure a president could face over their personal business holdings.
Monday's orders marked almost four years to the day that CREW sued Trump in federal court in Manhattan, filing the case almost immediately after he was sworn in. Trump had handed over day-to-day control of his businesses to his adult children after becoming president, but he refused to divest his own financial stake. Representing restaurant and hotel owners in New York, CREW accused Trump of violating both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses.
Trump had failed to get rid of the New York and Maryland cases by the time he left office. A New York federal district judge dismissed CREW's original case early on, finding the group and its clients lacked standing, but the 2nd Circuitin September 2019.
USDOJ_Intl USSupremeCourt Nice to see the supreme court trash the constitution! Well Don, money well spent i guess! Pathetic when the justices serving ignore justice deserved.
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PattyArquette I mean - is this surprising?
customcore7 Well that's fucked up.
PattyArquette Trump, once AGAIN to AMERICA. 'I want all the $$ I can get any way I can get it. ME FIRST.
PattyArquette Ohhhhhhhhhh, so THAT’s why they let him stay. Makes sense now. Not.
Trump: I can do anything I want. I have absolute immunity. SCOTUS: Correct.
To the GOP, remind me again how 'terrible' standing issues and what not are?
PattyArquette ⚠️This is what comes of Stacking the Courts🤬🚫‼️ Then prosecutors must explain their case to the people, & Hopefully some may come forward to Fill In The Gaps to what is Needed to make lawsuits against tRump’s violations credible without a doubt🙏 No More Teflon for tRump ⚖️‼️
Deplorable.
PattyArquette How convenient. You can’t prosecute me when I’m president and you can’t prosecute me when I’m not. Tell me again how our justice system isn’t rotten to the core
PattyArquette Jesus fucking Christ
PattyArquette Boo!!!
PattyArquette Wow! Unbelievable! At the very least they should of ordered all that money received by the trump organization should be paid back to the deficit for the American people!! Duetche Bank needs to make claim on that money for loan repayment!
PattyArquette Supreme court is republican owned... 😔
PattyArquette That’s been the story of this guys entire life.
This is bs. See his bought justices are setting the stage for his impeachment slide. No wonder he wanted to stay President as he wasn’t done grifting the country for crimes he was untouchable for in office knowing he wouldn’t have to pay for them after office.
Scotus we the people are sick and tired of watching him get away with literal murder. I speak for 81,000,000 Americans.
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Expand the SCOTUS..
PattyArquette Disgraceful.
ElosserDonna This might be a sign of more disappointments to come. We'd better brace ourselves. 😒
SIGNAL from the SCOTUS about whether they will back an Impeachment conviction of a Former President.
PattyArquette I have a feeling this is going to be one of the LAST things he gets away with. 😕🙄
PattyArquette Bullshit
This is all the more reason to have a senate trial. Seems scotus is saying impeachment and conviction is the only way to hold a president accountable, even after he leaves office.
Just one more example to stack onto the hundreds of examples where the law is only for us. If you are rich then there is no law for you. You do as you please and WTF you want. If your the POTUS then you can actually profit from the office and that's A OK! Thanks ALOT SCOTUS
JUST as he planned: 'can't get me I'M PRESIDENT' and now SupremeDOJTrump: 'can't get him he's NOT PRESIDENT'. So WTF use IS that sh*t?
So, they officially gave us Catch-22 now? He can't be prosecuted because he's president. He leaves. He's can't be prosecuted because he's no longer a sitting president? WTF?
PattyArquette Can't penalize him while he's President, can't penalize him now bc he's not President. Kangaroo court!
PattyArquette Translation: the emoluments clause is moot.
PattyArquette so, as long as you can get away with a crime long enough to dash out of arms length, alright! you win... keep on crimin' F*ck you Scotus
So basically the President can ignore the Constitution for 4 years* and then walk away without consequences**. What is the purpose of having a Constitution? * Because he can’t be tried while in office * Because he can’t be tried while out of office
PattyArquette 'Court dismissed case accusing murderer of murder because he's no longer in possession of the murder weapon.' Nice precedent, Supremes.
PattyArquette Is that why they waited? His presidency ended 5 days ago. Nice excuse tho.
Complicit.
Well then what’s the point of having that emoluments clause?! Corruption is apparently the only thing guaranteed in politics.
What else do you expect from a 6-3 conservative majority court 🥴
PattyArquette Yet something else he is getting away with.
PattyArquette His stacking SCOTUS starting to payoff...
PattyArquette Shameful.