There where SEVERAL cases before the court about an American President taking advantage of his state to MAKE money which the constitution seems to prohibit….
Donald Trump didn’t think the law applied to him….
And ignored it…
The Judges on the nation’s highest court won’t make a call because Trump is gone and the chances of another President doing what Trump did is remote?
Hmmmm?
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a pair of emoluments lawsuits against former President Trump, ruling that the cases are moot now that he has left office.
The two lawsuits, filed by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the attorneys general for Washington, D.C. and Maryland, were part of a novel legal effort that alleged Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clauses by continuing to own his business empire while in office.
Before Trump came into office, the courts had never considered the question of what the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses prohibited, as few presidents had sought to test their boundaries. But Trump held office while also retaining private business interests that were unprecedented in modern times….
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The high court’s decision on Monday not to review the cases will ensure that the emoluments clauses continue to go dormant, leaving little clarity on whether Trump’s private business interests were constitutional….