Derek Reinbold  //  4/30/17  //  Topic Update


Leah Litman continues her series of posts explaining why the CREW emoluments case against President Trump satisfies the requirement of "standing" (Take Care).

President Trump may have violated the domestic as well as the foreign Emoluments Clause because state public pension funds pay one of his management companies to run a New York hotel (Take CareSlate). 

Matthew Stephenson weighs when and if legal and regulatory decisions that have benefited President Trump can be considered emoluments (Global Anti-Corruption Blog).  

President Trump and his family have made money in his first 100 days and may view the presidency as a moneymaking venture (Vox).

President Trump doesn’t intend to release his tax returns, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (WaPo).

The Trump administration’s decision to stop disclosing White House visitor logs is a “giant leap in the wrong direction," writes Liz Hempowicz of the Project on Government Oversight.

The House Oversight Committee requested documents regarding the Trump Organization’s treatment of payments from foreign governments.


Updates | The Week of January 22, 2018

1/28/18  //  Daily Update

A federal district judge in Maryland heard arguments in a case brought by several state attorneys general contending that President Trump's business interests violate the Emoluments Clause.

Update | The Week of November 27, 2017

12/4/17  //  Daily Update

Michael Flynn's work on behalf of the Turkish government figures into Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of the Trump campaign.

Jeffrey Stein

Columbia Law School

Updates | The Week of October 23, 2017

10/31/17  //  Daily Update

The DOJ reversed its prior concession that the Foreign Emoluments Clause applies to the President. Oral arguments in the first Emoluments Clause challenge lingered on whether the issue is a nonjusticiable political question.