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Trump Faces New Legal Complaints on Day One

January 23, 2017

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Donald J. Trump was accustomed to being sued in the course of building his vast hotel empire. But on Inauguration Day, now President Trump was greeted with two new lawsuits, one involving his possible conflicts of interest in the leased Trump International Hotel in Washington and another related to earlier efforts by his transition team to gain information on federal employees working on climate change programs.

The difference between suits past and present is that Trump is now the boss of the agencies controlling the documents being sought.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday announced that it had just filed “its first legal action against the Trump administration.”

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