Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Trump on Foreign Payments

[Free Vulcan]

Around the time of his Inauguration, the president was sued by a liberal advocacy group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), joined by some hospitality-industry plaintiffs (hotels and restaurants). They argued that it was unconstitutional for Donald Trump to serve as president without completing severing all connections to his business interests and suggested that he could not effectively do so and thus is ineligible to be president.

As Judge George Daniels of Southern District of New York explained in his December 21 opinion dismissing the case, “Plaintiffs principally allege that Defendant’s ‘vast, complicated, and secret’ business interests are creating conflicts of interest and have resulted in unprecedented government influence in violation of the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses.

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[Right_in_Virginia]

The hospitality plaintiffs claimed that Trump’s election made his name such a big draw that it was costing their hotels and restaurants customers, who were going to Trump-named properties instead. The court rejected that argument, holding “the connection between the Hospitality Plaintiffs’ alleged injury and Defendant’s actions is too tenuous to satisfy Article III’s causation requirement.”

“Nothing in the text or history of the Emoluments Clauses suggests that the Framers intended these provisions to protect anyone from competition,” Daniels continued.