Trump will have to go to the Supreme Court to defeat a lawsuit accusing his DC hotel of violating the Constitution by taking payments from foreign governments
filed by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off of his hotel in Washington DC.
Now, Trump's lawyers will have to go to the US Supreme Court to overturn Thursday's decision from the entire Fourth Circuit allowing the suit to proceed to discovery. But in September 2019, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New Yorkfrom watchdog group the Center for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington and some hotel and restaurant industry groups also accusing Trump of violating the foreign emoluments clause, reversing a district court judge's previous dismissal of the suit.
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