Newsweek -Attorneys general from Maryland and the District of Columbia are
decrying an appeals court's decision to dismiss their emoluments lawsuit
against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, which they believe adds
support to the notion that the president can benefit financially from
his private business without substantial checks and balances.
In a statement to Newsweek,
a spokesperson for Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, two of the leading plaintiffs in a
lawsuit alleging that Trump is improperly profiting from his position
as president through his private business, said that the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals "got it wrong" in Wednesday's decision.
"Although
the court described a litany of ways in which this case is unique, it
failed to acknowledge the most extraordinary circumstance of all:
President Trump is brazenly profiting from the Office of the President
in ways that no other President in history ever imagined and that the
founders expressly sought—in the Constitution—to prohibit," the
spokesperson said in a written statement.
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