Trump International Hotel at the center of appeals fight in lawsuit.
Attorneys who have brought the lawsuit against Trump are arguing that foreign officials who patronize Trump's D.C. property may be currying favor with the president.
A photo from Dec. 21, 2016, of the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. The outcome of the case will depend largely on how the term "emolument" comes to be defined. This is open for debate however, as emoluments cases are exceptionally rare, and one has never gone to trial in the United States.
But the judge who allowed the case to proceed sided with the Maryland and D.C. attorneys generals' broader definition of the term, who argued that an emolument is anything of value, including payments to the president's companies.
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