Government,
Constitutional Law
Aug. 8, 2018
First test for emoluments clauses of the Constitution
President Donald Trump’s legal problems grow on a daily basis, and the federal district court in Maryland just added to the list in late July.
John H. Minan
Emeritus Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Professor Minan is a former attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and the former chairman of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board.
President Donald Trump's legal problems grow on a daily basis, and the federal district court in Maryland just added to the list in late July.
In the first time that a federal court has applied the "emoluments" clauses of the Constitution to a president, the court held that a lawsuit by the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland against Trump may proceed. District of Columbia et al. v. Trump, 17-1...
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