Sunday, November 4, 2018

Speaking of Trump's lack of ethics

A federal judge on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to delay a lawsuit alleging that his business dealings have violated a constitutional anti-corruption provision, moving the case toward the crucial evidence-gathering process.

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The lawsuit, filed by the Democratic attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, alleges that Trump has violated the U.S. Constitution’s “emoluments” provisions designed to prevent corruption and foreign influence.

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U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte in Greenbelt, Maryland ruled against the administration’s request to bring an expedited appeal of previous rulings that allowed the case to proceed and its bid to halt the lawsuit’s discovery process, evidence-gathering that could force disclosure of Trump’s financial records.

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“Our next step is to proceed with discovery,” Karl Racine, the District of Columbia’s attorney general, said in a statement. “We will soon provide the court a new schedule to begin the process of getting information about how President Trump is profiting from the presidency.”

  Reuters
This is the case where Trump lawyers tried to claim the suit would be a distraction to Trump's work as president, and the judge pointed to Trump's tweet begging John Brennan to sue him. Another example of why packing the courts is so important to Trump. They'll take it all the way to the Supreme Court.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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