Trump Lawyers Tell Federal Court That Members Of Congress Have No Standing In Emoluments Lawsuit

Politico reports:

Lawyers representing about 200 Democratic members of Congress urged a federal judge on Thursday to allow them to press ahead with a lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump from taking payments and other benefits from foreign governments doing business with his corporate empire.

Nearly a year after the suit was filed, Judge Emmet Sullivan of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held the first hearing in the case on Thursday.

For two hours, lawyers for the members of Congress and the Trump administration battled over a key issue in the case: whether individual lawmakers have standing to sue the president over his alleged violations of the Constitution’s ban on accepting so-called foreign emoluments without advance approval from Congress.