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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/trump-demands-stop-to-emoluments-case-as-state-ags-subpoena-38-witnessesBy Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo
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President Trumps Justice Department is scrambling to stop two state attorneys general from procuring evidence about whether the President is violating the Constitutions emoluments clause by filing an emergency appeal in the Fourth Circuit court.
Warning that attorneys general from Maryland and DC have sent 38 subpoenas to third parties, Justice Department attorneys argue that the court needs to halt the lawsuit at the district court level before documents from those subpoenas are returned by a January 3 deadline.
Trump lost a motion to dismiss the suit at the district court level in the case, and he filed the appeal as a petition for writ of mandamus, essentially asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to override the lower court and halt the case immediately before throwing it out entirely.
DOJ attorneys argue that the state attorneys general have a fundamentally flawed view of the Constitution and that the lower court judge, District Judge Peter Messitte, committed a manifest abuse of discretion in failing to allow an appeal of his decision denying a motion to dismiss.
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Trump Demands Stop To Emoluments Case As State AGs Subpoena 38 Witnesses (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2018
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trev
(1,480 posts)1. Sounds like desperation to me. nt
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)2. Nothing to hide so nothing to fear eh?
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)3. Paula Jones case went forward, so will this.