{"id":133659,"date":"2017-06-12T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/maryland-and-dc-will-challenge-trumps-foreign-government-income-in-court.html"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:23:18","slug":"maryland-and-dc-will-challenge-trumps-foreign-government-income-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/maryland-and-dc-will-challenge-trumps-foreign-government-income-in-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Maryland and DC will challenge Trump&#039;s foreign government income in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There&#39;s certainly the <i>appearance<\/i> of a variety of business ties that, even if he is not (ostensibly) managing his business still end up lining his pockets. I&#39;m not convinced that&#39;s his primary, or even secondary goal in being president, but it&#39;s a great perk.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is, do those business ties and income rise to the level of violating laws regarding corruption and other such stuff (cf. the emoluments clause) and, if so, can the President actually be sued for them?<\/p>\n<p>I expect this to be a looooooong case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/major-lawsuit-against-trump-promised-d-c-maryland-officials-n770846'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/hYdtkb2rEWsBpSYRIrgXcNuP6NPX3hlvJ6WS2By6mln1obiKu29fg-KLp3YzLovLnmTfPlv1kpn3dsyStXTrkAm3WeF5FsRXvF-aw3pEgnFYHSHYrTmC1stxb-Nc6BgO_-lHtlOTS1nWfMOQpAysi-a07m81yCJkxXxNAhBr4ey5aABttLSnHCbLuaL8EdJ8xG-SGZLxRAn2gah3parvErr317vdCg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/major-lawsuit-against-trump-promised-d-c-maryland-officials-n770846'>&#8216;Major lawsuit&#8217; against Trump promised by D.C., Maryland officials<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMaryland and D.C. didn&#8217;t disclose the focus of their litigation, but The Washington Post reported that it involves foreign payments to Trump&#8217;s businesses.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/gchRDfUMJCP'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There&#39;s certainly the appearance of a variety of business ties that, even if he is not (ostensibly) managing his business still end up lining his pockets. I&#39;m not convinced that&#39;s his primary, or even secondary goal in being president, but it&#39;s a great perk. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/12\/maryland-and-dc-will-challenge-trumps-foreign-government-income-in-court.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maryland and DC will challenge Trump&#039;s foreign government income in court&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5413,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/16\/our_close_frien.html","url_meta":{"origin":133659,"position":0},"title":"Our close friends and allies","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Mar-04 6:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Why the heck is France conducting joint naval exercises with China, particularly right before a Taiwanese presidential election? 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