John Mikhail, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Simon Stern and I are proud to have filed our brief in CREW v. Trump on behalf of the plaintiffs on the meaning of the Emoluments clauses. See here.
We have posted images of archival sources debunking the inaccurate claims made in the amicus brief on behalf of Trump, on the unsupported and idiosyncratic claim that the Foreign Emoluments Clause does not apply to the president. See here. The key documents by Alexander Hamilton, disproving their briefs’ claims, are images 9 and 12 on this part of the site. They show that Alexander Hamilton in fact included the president and vice president in his list of “offices under the United States,” signed and dated by Hamilton twice in the final versions.
