The Supreme Court ruled against Goldwater, but it didn't deny his ability to bring a lawsuit, said Brian Frazelle, appellate counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, which is working on the congressional lawsuit. Frazelle said a lower court granted standing to Goldwater and the other senators based on their claim that Carter had deprived them of a vote to stop the treaty from ending.
CAC In the News
June 20, 2017
Nexstar's Washington correspondent Brie Jackson spoke with CAC's David Gans about the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in Gill v. Whitford, a partisan gerrymandering case out of Wisconsin.
June 20, 2017
Blumenthal joined forces with the Constitutional Accountability Center and became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the President, last week, for violating the emoluments clause. Thirty other Senators and more than a hundred members of the House of Representatives, all Democrats, have joined as co-plaintiffs.
June 20, 2017
Donald Trump is being sued by members of Congress. Host Bill Press spoke to Elizabeth Wydra, the President of The Constitutional Accountability Center, and the lawyer representing them, about why the lawsuit was brought up.
June 20, 2017
[Members of Congress] will be joined by Elizabeth Wydra, President of the Constitutional AccountabilityCenter, the public interest organization whose attorneys are representing Members of Congress.