Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Roll Call article about President Trump’s ongoing legal troubles.
Jed Shugerman, a Fordham Law professor who has written about Trump’s various legal entanglements, said the connections being made to foreign policy and political decisions are “widespread and deep” — and unprecedented.
“This is not just money corruption,” he said. “It is fair to ask questions about whether this degree of entanglement of financial control, and potentially who knows what else they have on him, destabilizes global security and enables the increasing power of authoritarianism and dictatorship around the world.”
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That could be done through statutes that give states broad powers to investigate corporate wrongdoing, said Shugerman, the Fordham Law professor.
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Already, the Democratic attorneys general in Maryland and Virginia have filed a civil suit against Trump, saying that payments to Trump’s businesses from foreign governments violate anti-corruption clauses in the constitution.
“There are so many different state statutes and state powers that come into play,” Shugerman said.
