Watch live coverage of house rules tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online at cspan. Org impeachment, or listen live with the cspan radio at. The fourth circle Circuit Court of appeals listened to arguments, which bars president s from receiving gifts from foreign governments while in office. The president illegally profited from dignitaries staying at the trump hotel. A threejudge Panel Previously found the district in maryland did not have standing to bring these lawsuits. The courts decision will determine whether the lawsuit can move forward. Oh yay, oh yay. The court is now sitting. God save the note states in the United States in this Honorable Court. The District Court committed multiple errors in refusing to dismiss this suit and plaintiffs can i ask you to speak up just a little bit . Bring the microphone a little closer if you can. And the plaintiffs are fundamentally mistaken in asserting that this court is powerless to correct any of those errors at this time
Appeals in new orleans heard from lawyers on opposing sides of the case. This is an hour and 45 minutes. You may proceed. Thank your honor and may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with mr. Letter from the house of representatives and dividing rebuttal time. To start with the issues raised in the court in the supplemental briefing order, we think the states were clearly injured by the judgment below and are aiming to appeal it. Judge elrod you might want to move the microphone. Mr. Siegel after this supplement briefing all parts greed that this court has part parties have agreed that this court has Appellate Jurisdiction under bins or. Legal harm from the courts order even though they now welcome it, and the participation of the states and house of representatives and sure is that there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other issues in this case, the central feature this appeal is that when judge engelhardt when you say youre st
Thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation with us. Its great to be here this whole conference and thank you to everybody and especially to the chief judge for making me feel so at home and forgiving me so much work to do during this. The lineup in that case were somewhat unusual given the recent divide on the court. Im wondering from your perception what lessons can we learn from that case and from the lineup . Well, truth be told, i do think that the lineups were less unusual than they just were lop sided. You know, the unusual lineup is usually like the 54, but everybodys all scrambled. But this was just a lop sided result. It was a 72 case, sometimes we have those. We have 72 cases. We have 81 cases. And in this case the outsiders, if you will, were me and the chief justice. And what can i say, there were seven people