A D.C. appeals court threw out a lawsuit on Friday accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, ruling that the lawmakers who filed the case lacked standing to sue.
So it goes…
Quelle surprise… 
Pinochet, Qadaffi, Marcos et. al must be clapping and wondering at the beauty of this enterprise, and saying oh, what if this man had been there before me so I could have learnt from him.
Any attorneys in here want to tell us just who does have standing in an emoluments complaint?
So what is the proper remedy, if the courts have declared that they cannot adjudicate disputes between the Legislative and Executive branches? Are they saying, “Even though it is written plainly in the Constitution, emoluments cannot be prevented unless Congress writes a specific law prohibiting them.”?
So Congress can’t sue to enforce the clear language of the Constitution (note that another federal court ruled that Maryland and DC could not sue, although I think that was overruled), but must sue to enforce subpoenas in its impeachment inquiry.
And the Chief Justice is worried about the place of the courts in American society. Sure.
The first remedy is an attempt to obtain en banc review by the whole court, but that may not be permitted because the panel that decided this case was unanimous. In which case the only remedies would be: 1. a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court; 2. electoral defeat the clean the Augean Stables, 3. a revolution.
Not that anybody in power cares what I think, but I’ve been saying for a long time that Emoluments violations should have been added to the Articles of Impeachment.
We must brace ourselves for some more falling dominoes…my friends. BUT…it doesn’t mean we’ve lost the long game.
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The courts are broken.
Get ready for another victory lap from the Mango Menace. There really is nothing to stop him now from doing whatever his fevered little brain wants to do. We had a good run as a republic, but it’s circling the drain as we speak.
Every mobster’s gotta have a mob, all in the right places, and at the right times. Even when the mobster is a puny, whiny, little bastard. Tantrum throwing two-year old baby.
We need more big balloons of him, everywhere. I am so embarrassed by this baby-king.
The project of the right is pretty clearly to replace the apparatus and style of governance in the US without organized violence. They’re doing remarkably well.
I’d assign Year 1, Day 1 to Feb. 14, 2019, when Barr was confirmed as AG.
If it isn’t lawmakers, then who has standing to defend the Constitution?
Is that Frank’s mustache and soul patch?
George S Patton
“… all glory is fleeting…”
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.”
I would have thought that any citizen could sue to uphold the constitution.