The legal dream team representing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington took a running leap at the hurdle of standing, filing a hard-hitting brief on Friday evening in their emoluments lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
“To dismiss this case, in the name of faux judicial restraint or whatever mysterious self-serving principle the defendant is invoking, would be an abdication of [the court’s] responsibility,” the CREW lawyers wrote in opposition to Trump’s motion to dismiss. “It would allow the defendant to slip the bonds of the Constitution, immunize his financial ties with foreign governments, and reward him for being secret about it. This court should not permit that result.”
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