The U.S. Supreme Court today tossed a lawsuit claiming that former president Trump violated the constitutional prohibition against him receiving "emoluments"—profiting from a foreign governments.
— Read the restThe court instructed the lower courts to wipe away a lower court opinion that went against Trump because he is no longer in office.
Bad legal news for Orange President Kleptocrat today.
He's gonna be in a mood.
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the 1787 Constitutional Convention debate conclusively demonstrates why the Emoluments Clause was never intended to apply to Donald Trump!
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is demanding that Donald Trump return the $7.8M that foreign governments gave him while he was President, claiming he violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
"Your acceptance of foreign emoluments while in office was a stunning violation of the U.S. — Read the rest
For better or worse, the United States has never been a democratic nation. It is supposed to be a republic, one in which the people elect those who represent them and make the laws that govern them. However, it's not even a republic, given that every state, regardless of population, gets two senators, and the president is chosen by electors, not citizens. — Read the rest
While Mike Pompeo was serving as Secretary of State, the government of Japan presented him with a bottle of expensive whiskey. The State Department is investigating what happened to it. Pompeo's lawyer told The Wall Street Journal, that his client has "no recollection of receiving the bottle of whiskey and does not have any knowledge of what happened to it." — Read the rest
A single Trump golf outing brought Trump's club $28,800 in Secret Service spending.
Donald Trump, meet the U.S. Constitution's 'emoluments clause.'
A federal judge ruled today that 200 congressional Democrats do have standing to sue Donald Trump for violating the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments while he holds the office of President, according to the Washington Post.
Zephyr Teachout (previously) is a netroots pioneer, a leading competition law scholar, and a progressive candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of New York State.
Zephyr Teachout (previously) isn't just an expert on antitrust law and corruption, and isn't merely a netroots pioneer who has been on the right side of every technology policy fight since the Gore years — she's also running to be the Attorney General of the State of New York, from which position she plans on gutting Trump on his corrupt business practices, targeting him using the dread emoluments clause.
"One year of Trump. One year of unprecedented conflicts of interest."
In 2017, at least 4 foreign governments, 16 special interest groups and 35 Republican congressional campaign committees all spent money at Trump properties, data compiled by government watchdog group Public Citizen reveals. — Read the rest
Remember the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, the one that says that presidents aren't supposed to get gifts or payments from foreign governments without Congressional approval?
The petition to "immediately release Donald Trump's full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance" has received more signatures (385,845 so far) than any other petition in the White House's We the People petition system's history. — Read the rest
Today President-Elect Trump took to Twitter in an attempt to assure the world he will not let it look like he is making money off the Presidency.
Via the New York Times:
— Read the restNoah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a liberal nonprofit group that promotes ethics in government, said: "Unless his solution is to sell the business outside the family and put the proceeds in a blind trust, he's not really doing anything to solve the problem.
As George W Bush taught us: "fool me twice, we don't get fooled again."
