Professor Zephyr Teachout spoke with PBS Newshour about a lawsuit alleging that Congress was denied the chance to weigh in on whether Trump should be allowed to receive foreign payments to his company.
“In the past, presidents and federal officers have gone out of their way to avoid being anywhere near violating this anti-foreign corruption clause in the constitution,” said Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham University who is advising the District of Columbia and Maryland in their lawsuit against Trump.
Teachout, a Democrat who ran for governor in New York in 2014, argued that Trump, unlike his predecessors, has not done enough to distance and divest himself of his business interests, despite turning over the management of his company to his sons.
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