Eric Lipton and Adam Liptak for the NYT: A team of prominent constitutional scholars, Supreme Court litigators and former White House ethics lawyers intends to file a lawsuit Monday morning alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution by… Continue reading

Painter, Tribe, Eisen, and Matz in the Atlantic.  

Opening Arguments podcast.

NYT: Just hours after President-elect Donald J. Trump said he would not sell his vast business empire and would instead hand it over to a trust controlled by his two oldest sons, the government’s top ethics monitor said his plan… Continue reading

White Paper from his lawyers at Morgan Lewis Scholars talking to Ryan Lizza  

Eisen and Painter in the Guardian.

Bauer blogs.  

Will Baude: Even if you are satisfied that Trump is likely to violate one of the emoluments clauses, the arguments are technical, and the answers are not completely obvious. To argue against Trump’s behavior on those grounds is, I fear,… Continue reading