Rachel Maddow Interviews Professor Sarah Chayes About Donald Trump’s Violations of the Emoluments Clause

  • October 30, 2017

On October 18, 2017, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) presented oral argument in their landmark Emoluments Clause lawsuit against Donald Trump before Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York. Sarah P. Chayes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on whose behalf ECBAWM filed an amicus curiae brief in support of CREW, was interviewed by Rachel Maddow on October 20, 2017. The interview featured Chayes’s analysis of the case and of oral argument and excerpts from ECBAWM’s brief.

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“Would $1 Million in Hot Dogs Violate the Emoluments Clause?,” Slate