A Work-in-Progress: Select Bibliography of Court filings and Other Sources Regarding 2025 and post-2025 Litigation Involving the Foreign and Domestic (Presidential) Emoluments Clauses Cases

On January 23, 2017, during the first days of Trump-45, plaintiffs brought litigation against then-President Trump involving the Foreign and Domestic (Presidential) Emoluments Clause. See CREW v. Trump (S.D.N.Y.) (Abrams, J., subsequently Daniels, J.). In June 2017, two further, similar lawsuits were brought: DC & MD v. Trump (D. Md.) (Messitte, J.) and Blumenthal v. Trump (D.D.C.) (Sullivan, J.).

 

There has been chatter on social media suggesting that one or more players from those earlier cases will bring new (or renewed) litigation involving the same sort of claims and legal arguments. I could add information involving these newly, yet-to-be-filed cases to my older blog post. See Seth Barrett Tillman, A Work in Progress: Select Bibliography of Court filings and Other Sources Regarding the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses Cases, New Reform Club (Feb. 28, 2018, 8:59 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-work-in-progress-select-bibliography.html>, <https://tinyurl.com/ybg5dg6u>.

 

My former blog post is long. Adding to it might be less than readable. Instead, I will start a new blog post here tracking filings in the newly, yet-to-be-filed cases. I expect something similar may be done on Lawfare, Just Security, Constitutional Accountability Center, and, perhaps, on a newly reactivated Take Care Blog. I am a long blogger—so, it may be the consummate professionals at these other fora will be more quick to update their sites and also have more complete listings. My guess, based on past experience, is that their websites and blogs will lack good active links and substantial efforts at presenting complete citations with all available bibliographic information for a proper Blue Book citation. 

Feel free to send me material to add to this blog post as litigation proceeds to develop. See generally George Santayana (1905) (“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”). 

Seth

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘A Work-in-Progress: Select Bibliography of Court filings and Other Sources Regarding 2025 and post-2025 Litigation Involving the Foreign and Domestic (Presidential) Emoluments Clauses Cases,’ New Reform Club (Dec. 15, 2024, 1:49 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-work-in-progress-select-bibliography.html>;

See also Seth Barrett Tillman, A Work in Progress: Select Bibliography of Court filings and Other Sources Regarding the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses Cases, New Reform Club (Feb. 28, 2018, 8:59 AM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-work-in-progress-select-bibliography.html>, <https://tinyurl.com/ybg5dg6u>;