WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit filed by members of Congress against President Donald Trump alleging that he illegally profits off the presidency.
The high court said it would not hear a case filed by Democratic members of Congress in 2017. A federal appeals court in Washington previously ruled that the lawsuit should be dismissed.
The appeals court did not rule on whether Trump violated the law. It said only that the approximately 200 members of Congress who brought the lawsuit lacked the ability to sue.
As is typical when the Supreme Court declines to hear a case, the justices did not explain their reasoning.
Trump still faces other lawsuits alleging he violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution by accepting payments from foreign and domestic officials who stay at the Trump International Hotel.
In May, a federal appeals court in Virginia reinstated a lawsuit brought by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia. A similar lawsuit brought by by restaurant workers and a prominent restaurateur and hotelier is also ongoing.
Love those right wing activist judges who make it clear that Republicans are above the law!
It’s now up to a Biden DOJ to pursue this case, among many, many others.
The corruption at SCOTUS is astounding. It now has one illegitimate justice and a rapist masquerading as a justice.
It has become a cabal of Republican party hacks and minions, a smelly and vile cesspool of christian extremists, white nationalists and Trump-family whores. Many disgusting pieces of excrement in that nasty port-a-potty. I am wondering how much and what these justices received from the Trump Organization, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party?
The high court said it would not hear a case
such a shame that our supreme court is now going to be operated under the pretense of, wait till trump calls and informs us on what to do.
the stupid leading the career activists protecting there lifetime appointments.
somehow, someway that playing field needs to be leveled out so the country and democracy has a chance of surviving.
So technically nobody in the whole country has standing to sue… and now it’s been 4 years and the case is moot.
That’s what corruption looks like. I wonder how these staunch ‘originalists’ can look themselves in the mirror and pretend they’re non-partisan. They look more like an illegitimate garbage fire today.