emoluments clause

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that there was “no question” former President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from accepting payments or gifts from foreign governments and monarchs unless Congress consents.

The Supreme Court threw out disputes Monday claiming Donald Trump profited from the presidency through financial interest in his private company in a breach of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

Congressional Democrats are taking their Emoluments Clause case to the Supreme Court, claiming that President Donald Trump has been violating the Constitution since the day he took office by earning money from foreign business.

A federal appeals court on Friday morning tossed a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats alleging that President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause. 

A reasonable observer would have trouble finding anything President Donald Trump had done to meet the impeachment standard, but Democrats have a list.

Marc Short sent Elijah Cummings (D-MD) a letter rebuking claims that the vice president’s trip served to benefit President Donald Trump or the Trump Organization.

A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Friday that a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause can move forward.

A federal appeals court gave President Donald Trump a major victory over Democrats Wednesday, throwing out as a political squabble a lawsuit by Maryland and the District of Columbia arguing the president’s ownership of Trump International Hotel and other properties violates the Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” potential future chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said his committee would investigate President Donald Trump for any Emoluments Clause violations. Cummings said, “We definitely what to look at the Emoluments

12 Democratic members of the California’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives have warned the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) that they may risk violating their fiduciary duty unless they divest themselves of assets associated with the President Trump.

Protesters from the “#Resistance” movement demonstrated in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and nationwide on Sunday to call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

During Saturday’s “AM Joy” on MSNBC, Newsweek Senior Writer Kurt Eichenwald said, “we’ve gone to a new world” where the president can violate the Constitution, in this case, the Emoluments Clause, and his own party refuses to do anything about it.

The city council of Richmond, California — a relatively poor, industrial community on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay — voted unanimously on Tuesday evening in favor of a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached.