LAWSUIT/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A divided New York appeals panel has rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss or stall a lawsuit brought by a former ‘Apprentice’ contestant who claims Trump sexually assaulted her a decade ago. The appellate panel voted 3-2 to deny Trump’s bid to head off the suit from Summer Zervos, who says Trump kissed her, groped her breast and pressed his genitals against her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2007. After Trump denied the claims during the 2016 presidential campaign, Zervos sued him for defamation. Trump’s lawyers argued that allowing such a suit to proceed in a state court would interfere with his responsibilities as president under the Constitution, but a trial judge rejected that argument and on Thursday the majority of the appeals panel agreed…Renwick explained that Trump’s legal team argument that the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause — which gives federal laws precedence over state laws — should prevent the Zervos suit from proceeding had no support in the Constitution or prior case law.”
–Josh Gerstein, “Court allows defamation suit against Trump to proceed,” Politico, March 14, 2019 2:36 pm