Grassley: ‘Partisan’ Lawsuits Against Trump Should Also Implicate Clinton

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) is arguing that plaintiffs in three separate cases claiming President Donald Trump violated the Emoluments Clause should also sue Hillary Clinton.

Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested that Clinton may also have violated the clause when she was secretary of state, Circa reports. He called the lawsuits “partisan and narrow” in their scope.

The Emoluments Clause, 49 words in Article I of the Constitution, provides that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under [the United States], shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”

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