Lodging and a lawsuit?

The University of Wisconsin football team’s Orange Bowl stay at a resort owned by President Trump is potential fodder for a lawsuit.

A week-long stay by the University of Wisconsin football team at a South Florida resort owned by President Trump is providing new potential fodder for a lawsuit alleging that the president’s private business has put him in violation of the Constitution.

During a visit to Miami to play in last month’s Orange Bowl, the University of Wisconsin — a public university — put up about 250 players, athletic department staff, senior university officials and board members at the Trump National Doral golf resort.

The university’s stay may provide new ammunition to the state of Maryland and the District of Columbia, which sued Trump in June for allegedly violating anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign and state governments to his private company.

In an interview, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) said that the football team’s stay goes against the Constitution’s domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from accepting benefits or financial rewards from state governments.

“Something like that is a

problem, without question,” Frosh said in an interview. “It’s another example of how the potential for corruption is enormous.”

The Justice Department, which is representing Trump in the litigation, declined to comment on the case. The Trump Organization has referred questions about the case to the government.

The Doral resort was not selected by the school but by the Orange Bowl Committee, which organizes the game and signed a multiyear deal with Doral in 2014, before Trump ran for president.

Orange Bowl spokesman Larry Wahl said that the group “conducted a comprehensive request for proposal process to determine viable hotel properties” and determined that “Trump Doral not only meets, but exceeds our partners’ requirements for upcoming bowl games.”

For the Dec. 30 game, the University of WisconsinMadison sent 220 students and athletic department staff for seven nights from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Eve. The group included players, student managers, trainers, and fulltime staff such as coaches and administrators.

They were joined there by 24 senior administrators, most of the university’s Board of Regents and members of the school’s Athletic Board. (The marching band attended but did not stay at Doral.)

University spokesman John Lucas said the final bill had not been tallied but would be paid by the school in February using revenue from bowl proceeds, ticket sales, concessions and other sources.