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In its Monday, April 3 meeting, the Cambridge City Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution put forward by Vice Mayor Marc McGovern, Councilor Jan Devereux and Councilor Leland Cheung calling for the U.S. House of Representatives to begin an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.Wicked Local reports the resolution was put forward with help from the Cambridge Area Stronger Together organization, known by the acronym CAST.The resolution states that the way the president controls the Trump Organization has constituted a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution “from the day he took office.”The clause stipulates that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”An “emolument” is a salary, a fee or a profit.Trump announced in January he was transferring control of his business empire to his adult sons, but he still maintained a direct tie to the company through a trust. Trump is the sole beneficiary of the trust and can revoke it at any time.Richard W. Painter, who was the lead White House ethics attorney for President George W. Bush, is among a group that days after Trump was inaugurated filed a lawsuit alleging he was violating the Constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments.The lawsuit claims the emoluments clause prohibits Trump from receiving money from diplomats for stays at his hotels or foreign governments for leases of office space in his buildings. The lawsuit is pending in the Southern District of New York.“On Jan. 11, 2017, nine days before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump announced a plan that would, if carried out, remove him from day-to-day operations of his businesses, but not eliminate any of the ongoing flow of emoluments from foreign governments, state governments, or the United States government,” the City Council resolution reads.“These violations undermine the integrity of the presidency, corruptly advance the personal wealth of the president, and violate the public trust,” the resolution adds.Material from The Associated Press was used in this report.