Congressional Democrats have begun issuing subpoenas as part of the discovery process in their emoluments lawsuit targeting Pres. Trump.
Congressional Democrats have begun issuing subpoenas as part of the discovery process in their emoluments lawsuit targeting President Donald Trump, according to a statement issued Monday by the two members of Congress leading the suit.
Democrats sued President Trump last summer, arguing that under the foreign emoluments clause in the Constitution, Congress must consent to all foreign payments -- or emoluments -- his businesses earn, including his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The lawmakers are suing for standing to sign off on any foreign business conducted by President Trump’s businesses.
In June, the federal district judge overseeing their case, Judge Emmet Sullivan, denied President Trump’s latest bid to block the lawsuit and allowed Democrats to begin collecting evidence in discovery. Appeals are typically filed after a case has been settled. But Trump’s legal team wants an appeals court to intervene now,"given the unique and fundamental separation-of-powers concerns presented by allowing a suit to proceed and discovery to commence," the Justice Department lawyers wrote Monday.
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