Ethics Group Will Sue Trump On Monday Over Foreign Government Payments

Trump is barely two days in office, and already a lawsuit is set to be filed against the newly inaugurated president. According to press reports, a group of lawyers, including former White House ethics attorneys will file a lawsuit on Monday accusing the President of allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments in violation of the U. S. Constitution.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) announced Sunday night it is bringing a suit ‘to stop President Trump from violating the Constitution by illegally receiving payments from foreign governments.’ The group said the suit will be filed in the Southern District of New York at 9 a.m. on Monday.
Piggybacking on popular displeasure with the Clinton Foundation likewise accepting hundreds of millions in foreign payments, Deepak Gupta, a Supreme Court litigator working on the case, said the lawsuit will allege that the Constitution’s emoluments clause forbids payments to Trump’s businesses and will seek a court order forbidding Trump from accepting such payments. The case is part of a wave of litigation expected to be filed against Trump by liberal advocacy groups. It will be filed in a Manhattan federal court, Gupta said, and plaintiffs will include Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer in Republican President George W. Bush’s White House.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jan 22, 2017.