Zephyr Teachout was mentioned in a Law.com article about a lawsuit she and two other law professors filed against Donald Trump.
Filing on behalf of the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are University of California, Irvine School of Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, and Fordham University School of Law professor Zephyr Teachout.
The suit, filed Monday, centers on the rarely invoked Foreign Emoluments Clause and alleges that payments from foreign governments to Trump’s hotels and other businesses violate that clause, which bars the federal government from receiving gifts or compensation from foreign governments without congressional approval.
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