A public watchdog group that sued Donald Trump in January is adding new allegations and new plaintiffs to bolster its claims that the president’s business dealings violate the Constitution.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, said Monday in a statement that it’s revising its lawsuit to add a restaurant association representing 200 restaurants and thousands of workers and a luxury hotel event booker as plaintiffs. CREW claims Trump’s business empire is receiving money from foreign governments without congressional approval.

The new plaintiffs and their claims that Trump’s businesses are benefiting at their expense, add to CREW’s case, which critics said risked being dismissed by a judge for lack of standing, or sufficient legal injuries to allow the group to sue on its own. CREW also added new claims that the president is barred from getting payments from federal and state governments, other than his official salary.

“We would’ve liked to be dropping our case because the president got in line with the Constitution,” CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in the statement. “Instead, the violations we anticipated when we brought our case became much more concrete.”

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CREW is seeking an order from U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams that Trump is in violation of the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses. As part of the suit, CREW seeks access to Trump’s tax returns and other financial records. The group has said Trump should liquidate his business holdings and put the proceeds in a blind trust.

Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment after regular business hours Monday.

Hotels, creditors

In the original complaint, filed on Jan. 23, the first business day after Trump’s inauguration, CREW targeted payments from diplomats and foreign government officials to Trump’s hotels and golf courses. The group also challenged as improper loans on Trump properties held by the government-owned Bank of China Ltd. and other creditors, as well as Trump Tower leases by the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority.

CREW said the case will be joined by Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, an association representing 200 restaurants and 25,000 workers, and Jill Phaneuf, a Washington-based luxury hotel event booker. The new plaintiffs claim Trump’s businesses are unfairly depriving them of business from foreign governments that are now trying to curry favour with the president.

CREW said it will add new claims to the case, which have come up in the past three months, including China’s granting of trademarks to the president and the federal government’s decision to permit him to continue leasing the site of his Washington hotel despite claims he is in violation of the lease.

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CREW originally claimed it had standing to sue because Trump’s alleged conflicts have forced it to spend time and money to investigate and address violations of the law. Critics said that wasn’t enough to keep the case in court. The new parties appear calculated to improve CREW’s position on standing.

While presidents aren’t subject to the ethics laws that apply to most federal office-holders, most lawyers, including Trump’s, say the foreign emoluments clause does apply to him. The domestic emoluments clause expressly refers to presidents.

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