JUST IN: Federal appeals court dismisses case that argued President Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting profits through foreign and domestic officials who stay at his Washington hotel.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday dismissed a case brought by the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia that argued President Donald Trump is violating the Constitution by accepting profits through foreign and domestic officials who stay at his Washington hotel.
"The District and Maryland’s interest in enforcing the Emoluments Clauses is so attenuated and abstract that their prosecution of this case readily provokes the question of whether this action against the President is an appropriate use of the courts, which were created to resolve real cases and controversies between the parties," Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote in his opinion on behalf of the panel.
Wednesday's decision came after the judges in March grilled lawyers for the state of Maryland and Washington, D.C. — the two parties which filed the suit. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine did not immediately respond to request for comment from NBC News.in the case, including when a federal judge ruled that the two attorneys general had standing to file such a claim because business that was being sent to the hotel adversely affected other businesses in their jurisdictions.
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