A bit more on the DOJ's mandamus petition in the emoluments case, shortly to be filed on Trump's behalf in the Fourth Circuit. Here is the document: documentcloud.org/documents/5632…
The passage flagged by @JoshKovensky has some interesting sourcing--a listicle on the Mount Vernon website and a letter from Thomas Jefferson. 
I looked DOJ's sources up, and it's not too impressive. I'd be a touch embarrassed to quote directly from a page like this, which doesn't cite its own sources of information, in a Circuit Court brief. mountvernon.org/the-estate-gar…
The Jefferson letter doesn't support the proposition that DOJ cites it for--that he "exported tobacco to Great Britain." He may have, but the letter appears to be about the influence of various reports and rumors on the Richmond, VA market. cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mt…
Chutzpah levels are off the charts.
The United States Department of Justice wrote this. It's surreal.
