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So that is the end of the emolument's nonsense. I wonder if Rachel Maddow is going to cry on MSNBC when she has her televised fit about this on television tonight.
The attorneys general of Maryland and Washington, DC accused President Trump of violating the Constitution's emolument's clauses, which bar the president from receiving "any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state" or any state in the U.S. Their lawsuit, filed in 2017, said he improperly benefits financially whenever foreign or state governments patronize the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.
But the appeals court said Maryland and the District could not prove that state or foreign governments were patronizing the Trump hotel because it distributes profits or dividends to the president, rather than because of any of the hotel's other characteristics.
In short, the court concluded, the link between official patronage of the hotel and the hotel's payments of profits to Trump is too remote to justify the lawsuit. And the ruling said it was not at all clear that any court action barring the president from receiving money from the hotel would cause officials to stop patronizing it.
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