Plaintiff / Appellee:	Amy Klobuchar, Jeff Merkley, Cory A. Booker, Ron Wyden, Richard J. Durbin, Eric Swalwell, Chris Murphy, Patrick J. Leahy, Zoe Lofgren, Ted Deutch, Steve Cohen, Kamala D. Harris, Tim Kaine, Sheila Jackson Lee, Chris Van Hollen, Jerrold Nadler, James E. Clyburn, Michael F. Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Henry C. Hank Johnson, Brian Schatz, Ted Lieu, Karen Bass, David N. Cicilline, Tom Carper, Edward J. Markey, Tammy Duckworth, Elizabeth Warren, Bernard Sanders, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Benjamin L. Cardin, Patty Murray, Mazie K. Hirono, Hakeem Jeffries, Christopher A. Coons, Richard Blumenthal, Catherine Cortez Masto, Linda T. Sanchez, Jamie Raskin, Maria Cantwell, Steny H. Hoyer, Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Reed and Cedric L. Richmond
Defendant / Appellant:	Donald J. Trump, in his official capacity as President of the United States of America
Amicus Curiae:	Leonard I. Garth, Judge, Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Frank Greenberg, Tom Harkin, (D-IA), Karole Green, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Cary Coglianese, Lee Hamilton, (D-IN), Frank Edmund Deale, Svetlana Wachtell, Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law, Madeleine K. Albright, Wendy Parmet, Matthews University Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Law, Peter Smith, (R-VT), Richard A. Horvitz, Andrew Rothman, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Seth Davis, Brian Wolfman, Lawrence Ashe, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Marilyn Glynn, Former OGE Acting Director and General Counsel (career), Joseph Solomon, Distinguished Professor, New York Law School, Christoph Henkel, Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law, Matthew D. Adler, Jed Shugerman, Legal historian and Professor, Prem Kumar, Paul R. Verkuil, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and President Emeritus of the College of William & Mary, Mary-Beth Moylan, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Experiential Learning, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Jack Rakove, Legal historian and Professor, Richard Heppner, Assistant Professor, Duquesne University School of Law, Herbert M. Wachtell, Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law, Jesse Egbert, Professor, Clark D. Cunningham, Professor, John F. Kerry, Bathsheba N. Crocker, Laurence H. Tribe, Lumen Mulligan, Research Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Barbara Boxer, (D-CA), George Miller, (D-CA), Dick Zimmer, (R-NJ), Michael Darr Barnes, (D-MD), Jesse Herbert Choper, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Mark Udall, (D-CO), Simon Stern, Legal historian and Professor, Niskanen Center, Joan E. Steinman, Suzy George, Jonathan S. Masur, James Gray Pope, Distinguished Professor of Law & Sidney Reitman Scholar, Rutgers Law School, Richard Thomas, Former Associate General Counsel, OGE; Former Ethics Counsel, Department of Health & Human Services, Bernice J. Greenberg, Seth Barrett Tillman, Scholar, Gautham Rao, Legal historian and Professor, Edward B. Shils, Trevor Potter, Mark Rahdert, Professor of Law, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Michael C. Dorf, Bob Carr, (D-MI), Maxwell Stearns, Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law, John Mikhail, Legal historian and Professor, Jeffrey Prescott, Lawrence Reynolds, Former Assistant General Counsel for the Department of Housing & Urban Development with responsibility for ethics (career; also served at the Department of Labor in career ethics capacity), Chuck Hagel, James B. Steinberg, William Luneberg, Professor of Law, Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Joan E. Steinman, University Distinguished Professor Emerita, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Wendy Sherman, Trip Rothschild, Former Associate General Counsel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Donald B. Ayer, Daniel Feldman, Brad Miller, (D-NC), Gary Hart, (D-CO), Diana Sclar, Professor of Law and Allan Axelrod Scholar, Rutgers Law School, John P. Wilson, Leslie Wilcox, Former Associate General Counsel for OGE (career), and principal author of the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch (5 CFR Part 2635), Philip Sharp, (D-IN), Earl B. Shurtz, Research Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Republican Women for Progress, Heather A. Higginbottom, Tom Coleman, (R-MO), Perry Dane, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, J. W. Verret, Jim Leach, (R-IA), Robert S. Stevens, Matt Olsen, Jon D. Michaels, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, Dan Fox, Former Office of Government Ethics (OGE) General Counsel and Acting Director (career; also served at the Department of Defense in career legal capacity), Harvey Wilcox, Former Navy Deputy General Counsel (career) and Designated Agency Ethics Official, Steve Bartlett, (R-TX), Karl Manheim, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Sandra Rierson, Associate Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Thomas Green, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Judicial Education Project, Henry A. Waxman, (D-CA), Vikram Singh, Amy Comstock Rick, Former Director of the OGE; former Associate Counsel to President Clinton for ethics (originally career ethics official at Department of Education), Charles Doskow, Dean Emeritus & Professor of Law, University of La Verne Collegeof Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Matthew I. Hall, Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, Arthur Wolf, Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Legislative and Governmental Affairs, Western New England University School of Law, Edward Purcell, Distinguished Professor, New York Law School, Harold H. Bruff, Rosenbaum Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Law, Mickey Edwards, (R-OK), Joshua A. Geltzer, Bob Inglis, (R-SC), Helen Hershkoff, Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law, Bruce Andrews, Christopher Shays, (R-CT), Kathy Ashe, Jeff Bingaman, (D-NM), Gregory P. Magarian, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Ronald Chen, University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Karen Kucik, Former ethics official for DOJ, Department of Commerce, and Department of Health & Human Services (career), William Burns, Antony Blinken, Frank Edmund Deale, Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law, Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law Emeritus at Columbia Law School, Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis Chair and Jacob E. Davis II in Law at the Ohio State Universitys Moritz College of Law, James C. OBrien, Heather Elliott, Alumni, Class of '36 Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law, Jonathan Finer, Aziz Zahirul Huq, Eric J. Segall, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Daniel Farber, John F. Preis, Donald L. Doernberg, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Pace University School of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Eric P. Schwartz, Daniel Benjamin, Antony J. Blinken, William J. Burns, Joshua Alexander Geltzer and James C. O'Brien
Case Number:	19-5237
Filed:	September 5, 2019
Court:	U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Nature of Suit:	Other Civil Rights

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