最高法院周一同意听取拜登政府的上诉，以限制国会议员对联邦政府提起的诉讼，该案源于华盛顿特朗普国际酒店(Trump International Hotel)的争议。
法官们表示，他们将审查联邦上诉法院的一项裁决，该裁决允许众议院监督委员会的民主党成员继续提起诉讼。他们在2017年提出投诉，原因是特朗普政府拒绝移交特朗普组织在白宫和国会大厦之间的宾夕法尼亚大道租赁酒店的信息。
该家族不再拥有这家酒店，现在是华尔道夫酒店，大部分信息最终被提供，六名参与此案的议员也不再在众议院任职。
然而，拜登司法部告诉法院，将上诉裁决从书中抹去很重要，因为否则可能会导致国会议员个人提起大量诉讼。
该案将于秋季进行辩论。
这家旅馆从2000年初就受到了批评唐纳德·特朗普他收受了急于讨好他的共和党政客、公司和外国政府的钱。这家酒店位于联邦政府拥有的旧邮局，特朗普的家族企业与总务管理局有租约。
特朗普在担任总统期间，拒绝出售他在酒店的股份，尽管租约禁止当选官员获得“可能从租约中产生的”任何利益。民主党人指控特朗普的财产所有权造成了利益冲突。
另外，特朗普面临诉讼，指控他是否违反宪法的薪酬条款，通过拥有这家酒店非法获利。
2021年，最高法院最终结束了这些诉讼，称一旦特朗普离任，这些案件就没有意义了。
在立法者的案例中，唯一有争议的文件是法律意见书。最高法院只是在调查立法者是否有法律权利或起诉权。
国会议员通常不能以个人或小团体的形式走进联邦法院，声称他们作为立法者的身份赋予他们在政府拒绝满足他们的信息要求时提起诉讼的权利。
但一项有95年历史的法律允许众议院监督委员会的任何7名成员或该机构类似委员会的5名参议员要求并获得联邦机构的某些信息。
谈判几乎总能解决任何争端。但是，当妥协的努力失败时，如何执行法律的问题从未得到解决。自该法律于1928年颁布以来，立法者此前仅提起过两次诉讼，这些案件在没有重大法律裁决的情况下结束。
Supreme Court to review Democratic lawmakers' suit over Trump hotel lease
WASHINGTON --WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal to limit lawsuits filed by members of Congress against the federal government, in a case that stems from disputes over what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
The justices said they will review a federal appeals court ruling that allowed a suit by Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee to continue. They filed their complaint in 2017 over the Trump administration's refusal to turn over information about the Trump Organization's lease of the hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol.
The family no longer owns the hotel, now a Waldorf Astoria, much of the information eventually was provided and six lawmakers who were part of the case no longer serve in the House.
The Biden Justice Department, however, told the court that it is important to wipe the appellate ruling from the books because it otherwise could lead to a flood of lawsuits from individual members of Congress.
The case will be argued in the fall.
The hotel drew criticism from the start ofDonald Trump's presidency for taking money from Republican politicians, companies and foreign governments eager to curry favor with him. The hotel is in the federally owned Old Post Office and Trump's family business held a lease with the General Services Administration.
Trump, while president, refused to sell off his stake in the hotel despite a prohibition in the lease on elected officials obtaining any benefit that “may arise from the lease.” Democrats alleged that Trump’s ownership of the property created a conflict of interest.
Separately, Trump faced lawsuits over whether he illegally profited off his presidency by owning the hotel in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
In 2021, the Supreme Court eventually brought an end to those suits, saying the cases were moot once Trump left office.
In the lawmakers' case, the only documents still at issue are legal opinions. The Supreme Court only is looking at whether the lawmakers have the legal right, or standing, to sue.
Members of Congress ordinarily cannot march into federal court as individuals or in small groups and assert that their status as lawmakers gives them the right to sue when the administration in power refuses to comply with their demands for information.
But a 95-year-old law allows any seven members of the House Oversight Committee or five senators on that body's similar committee to request and be provided certain information from federal agencies.
Negotiations have almost always resolved any disputes. But the question of how to enforce the law when efforts at compromise fail has never been resolved. Since the law's enactment in 1928, lawmakers sued only twice previously and those cases ended without significant legal rulings.
