Editor’s Note: This story originally ran May 3, 2019. It has been updated to note that an appeals court dismissed a challenge from Maryland and the District of Columbia, which claimed President Donald ...

After four years of contested litigation, the D.C. Circuit cursorily resolves the meaning of the Emoluments Clauses without any acknowledgment of contrary positions. I won't regale you with the ...

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On April 30, a federal district judge rejected Trump’s motion to throw out the lawsuit filed by approximately 201 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives alleging that Trump has ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively ended the Emoluments Clauses litigation. Howard Bashman rounded up more than a dozen media accounts. I'd like to commend Adam Liptak's report for the New York ...

The emoluments clause became a trending topic over the past week. White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday that next year's Group of Seven economic meeting, commonly referred to as ...

The outcome of a lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by profiting off the presidency could depend largely on competing definitions of an antiquated word: emoluments.

A D.C. federal judge refused to throw out a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause. In a 48-page opinion Tuesday, U.S.

Some critics of President Trump have accused him of violating the Constitution’s ban on presidents accepting emoluments from foreign interests, noting that foreign entities regularly book rooms and ...

Vice President Mike Pence's decision to spend two nights at President Donald Trump's golf resort outside Doonbeg, Ireland, this week — on the opposite side of the country from the official meetings in ...

The Constitution’s emoluments clause is back in the news — and that is sending plenty of people to the internet to find out exactly what “emolument” means. Merriam-Webster saw a spike in searches for ...

The emoluments clause became a trending topic over the past week. White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday that next year's Group of Seven economic meeting, commonly referred to as ...