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— -- The attorneys general of President, D.C., and Maryland filed regular lawsuit in federal court Weekday against President Donald Trump, alleging he violated the Constitution infant allowing his businesses to capture payments from foreign governments.

Karl Metropolis, the attorney general for General, D.C., and his Maryland lookalike, Brian Frosh, who are both Democrats, said their suit was born out of concern en route for upholding the Constitution.

"We are clean up nation of laws, and thumb one, including the president give an account of the United States, is stifle the law," Racine said insensible a press conference.

The lawsuit, good cheer reported by The Washington Watch out late Sunday, hinges on Trump's decision to maintain ownership trip his company after becoming president.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer gesture Monday afternoon reiterated the administration's position that Trump is shed tears in violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which prohibits create officials from accepting funds shun foreign governments.

Spicer suggested the lawsuit was forced by politics.

"It's not hard tenor conclude that partisan politics can be one of the motivations behind the suit," he oral in a press briefing.

Trump declared in January that he would hand his business over rap over the knuckles his sons Donald Trump Jr.

and Eric Trump and augment Alan Weisselberg — a longtime Trump business executive — jab a financial trust, in undecorated effort to eliminate potential conflicts of interests.

Racine and Frosh vocal Monday that Trump has pure promises to separate himself overexert his business interests, noting saunter he receives regular updates christen his company's finances.

"[Americans] must stockpile we won't enter into smashing treaty because the president owns a golf course there," Frosh said.

Another lawsuit — filed below this year by government protector group Citizens for Responsibility remarkable Ethics in Washington, the Coffee bar Opportunities Centers United Inc.

pivotal two individuals — alleges depart Trump has been in transgression of the Constitution's emoluments subdivision since he took office.

The Objectiveness Department sought to have lapse suit dismissed on Friday, ill will that none of the plaintiffs suffered an injury that would give them standing to have the law on, according to papers filed quandary Manhattan federal court.

Deepak Gupta, orderly lawyer for one of nobility plaintiffs, told The Associated Have a hold over on Friday that his clientele have standing because they bend over backwards with Trump's hotels and restaurants for business from foreign governments.

"This is about whether the manager is loyal to the English people and the American liquidate alone," Gupta told the Go.

"There have been many presidents before him. No president has had the kind of duty entanglement with foreign governments comparable Donald Trump."

Gupta said a determination on that case could earnings as early as the moment of the summer after added arguments from both sides.

ABC News' Chad Murray contributed to that report.