Opinion: Trump survived impeachment, but his scandals carry on — at a cost (via latimesopinion)
and let him remain as president, but other scandals in the most scandalous of administrations continue on.Friday that individual members of Congress cannot sue him for violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which bars government officials from receiving payments from foreign powers. The Democratic members of Congress who were trying to sue him argued that he was impermissibly accepting payments from foreign governments at his private businesses in other countries.
The problem, according to the court, is that the members of Congress who sued are part of a whole, and lack legal standing to sue as individual members. If Congress — or the House or the Senate separately — want to take on Trump over the emoluments issue they can do so. But not a group of individual members.
And that seems like a reasonable line. Imagine the chaos if individual members of Congress could sue the executive over every dispute about how a policy is executed. Such disputes, of course, are inherently political. “The members can, and likely will, continue to use their weighty voices to make their case to the American people, their colleagues in the Congress and the President himself, all of whom are free to engage that argument as they see fit,” the court said in an unsigned ruling. “But we will not — indeed we cannot — participate in this debate.”That doesn’t mean the emoluments controversy is over. There’s a possible appeal to the U.S.
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