I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress,

to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase

awareness and understanding of the Constitution

among the American people.

And today we look at crew versus Trump, a lawsuit about President Trump's alleged violation of the Foreign Amoluments Clause of the Constitution,

as well as the Domestic Amoluments Clause of the Constitution through the Trump Hotel and other enterprises.

Recently, the Southern District of New York

heard oral arguments on the case,

raising important questions about the scope of the Emoluments

clause, whether or not it applies to the president,

and whether or not courts can examine it in the first place.

Joining us to discuss these important questions and more are two important constitutional

scholars who have written extensively on the crew case.

Josh Blackman is Associate Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.

He filed an amicus brief in the crew and Trump lawsuit on behalf of another law professor Seth

Barrett Tillman who wrote about the foreign emoluments clause on the interactive

constitution and Jed Sugarman is professor of law at Fordham Law School.

He filed an amicus brief in the crew and a monuments clause litigation against President Trump,

along with a team of historians.

Josh, Jed, thank you so much for joining.

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