Possible wave of lawsuits against Donald Trump begins today
San Francisco — A group including former White House ethics attorneys will file a lawsuit on Monday accusing President Donald Trump of allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments, in violation of the US constitution. Deepak Gupta, a Supreme Court litigator working on the case, said the lawsuit would allege that the constitution’s emoluments clause forbids payments to Trump’s businesses. It would seek a court order forbidding Trump from accepting such payments, he said. The case, reported earlier by the New York Times, is part of a wave of litigation expected to be filed against Trump by liberal advocacy groups. It would be filed in a Manhattan federal court, Gupta said, and plaintiffs would include Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer in Republican president George W Bush’s White House. A Trump spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment. Trump’s son Eric Trump, an executive vice-president of the Trump Organisation, told the Times on Sunday t...
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