{"id":792,"date":"2019-07-10T16:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=792"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:15:58","slug":"appeals-court-dismisses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-in-win-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/07\/10\/appeals-court-dismisses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-in-win-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court dismisses Emoluments Clause lawsuit in win for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Maryland and\u00a0the District of Columbia alleging that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, finding that they did not have the standing to sue the president.The ruling is a major win for Trump, who has frequently sought to prevent others from reviewing his private financial records.\u00a0And it&#8217;s a sign that other lawsuits alleging similar violations of the Emoluments Clause \u2013 including one brought by more than 200 Democratic members of Congress \u2013 will face an uphill battle in succeeding.\u00a0 &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/452388-appeals-court-dismisses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-in-win-for-trump\">TheHill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Appeals court dismisses Emoluments Clause lawsuit in win for Trump\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/452388-appeals-court-dismisses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-in-win-for-trump\" data-hashtags=\"EmolumentsFail\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Maryland and\u00a0the District of Columbia alleging that\u00a0President Trump\u00a0is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, finding that they did not have the standing to sue the president.The ruling is a major win for Trump, who has frequently sought to prevent others<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/07\/10\/appeals-court-dismisses-emoluments-clause-lawsuit-in-win-for-trump\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}