Claiming the president has “absolute immunity” from legal action both in his official capacity and as a private individual, lawyers representing Donald Trump called on a federal court to toss out a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause by accepting payments from foreign governments at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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Norm Eisen, former White House ethics official and chair of Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, said that if the court accepts Trump’s argument, it would effectively mean the president “is beyond the reach of the law.”
Filed by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia in June, the suit accuses Trump of committing “unprecedented constitutional violations” by refusing to “disentangle his private finances from those of domestic and foreign powers.”
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