President Trump is appealing a lower court’s decision not to throw out one of the emoluments cases against him, according to a Friday court filing.
In the document filed in federal court in Maryland, Trump gave notice that he intends to appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Trump made the filing in his individual capacity, and was not represented by government attorneys, but instead by attorney William Consovoy.
The appeal is coming in a case filed by the attorneys general for Maryland and DC, who allege that Trump is violating the constitution by accepting foreign gifts in the form of visits from foreign officials to his hotels.
DOJ attorneys acting for Trump in his official capacity had argued on Nov. 30 that Judge Peter Messitte should delay discovery in the case until the appeal was concluded. Messitte denied that request, and discovery began two weeks ago.
Someone at the Post or Times needs to do a story on how Trump is “paying” for all of this legal work done on his own behalf—and how much it’s cost so far. He’s going on a 16-day vacation so lots of air time for cable news to fill up.
This damned well better be done by a lawyer paid by him, and not by a White House lawyer paid by me and you and other taxpayers.
Actually, we taxpayers are already paying huge amounts for salaries of White House lawyers to defend Trump from stuff he did before he was elected, or during the transition – all when he was still a private citizen. Enough!
I sure hope that this attorney, William Consovoy, is being paid for out of his own fucking pocket for a change, but I somehow doubt that’s the case. CREW should get right on that before they find a way to hide where the money is coming from.
I’m sure at some point, like everything else this nimrod does, our tax dollars will be paying for his personal defense of his business decisions out of DoJ, after all according to this poor excuse for a Pr*sident, he thinks they’re there to represent him in all matters.
ETA: Seems like we all have the same concerns so far looking at the comments. Its so obvious that this is the first thing we have to concern ourselves with, even before the actual case is tried in court on appeal.
It’s not going to work this time.
One can just see into the future when the government brings suits against tRump for using gov’t. money to defend himself in all the law suits. You know that’s what he’ll be trying to do. It’s either that or he’ll be bankrupted from all the lawyers he’ll need to defend endless court cases.