What If China Paid Trump While In Office But The Supreme Court Said The Question Was Moot? It did, and they did? Well how about that.
. . . For starters, we need to emphasize again that Trump’s getting money from foreign sources is not simply a paperwork detail, it’s a flat out violation of the US Constitution, which Republicans used to say was a pretty big deal. The “foreign emoluments clause” ( Article I, Section 9, clause 8) is pretty clear on the matter:
“[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], 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.”
“Emolument” is simply a ye olde word for an “advantage, profit, or gain received as a result of one’s employment or one’s holding of office,” and it has generally been interpreted as a ban on taking any gifts or payments from a foreign. The clause very much applies to presidents, and prior to Trump, it was taken quite seriously. As the report notes, John F. Kennedy had to turn down Ireland’s symbolic offer of honorary Irish citizenship, and Barack Obama was allowed to accept the Nobel Peace Prize “only after the DOJ determined that the selection process was independent from the influence of the Norwegian government.” (It was a 20-page decision.) And even then, he donated to charity the $1.4 million that went with the honor.
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Trump just bulldozed right past such petty concerns, and because he was such a tornado of chaos and scandal (way off the Fujita scale, what with the bulldozer being tossed around in the whirlwind too), his Constitution-defying business operations never got him in any trouble. Even when good government groups tried to sue to get federal courts to pay attention, the suits got thrown out of court because judges said the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue, since Trump’s defiance of the Constitution hadn’t directly harmed them.
Fucking bullshit that they don’t have standing. We all have standing when the president is diminishing the credibility and authority of the office.
You have been permanently banned from c/Conservative.
I would wear that as an honor
Is there a c/conservative?
There is, but it doesn’t seem to be very active thankfully.
Every time one pops up on All, I block it from my feed.
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Good bot 🤖
Several months ago there was one on lemmy.world, but I haven’t looked since. Let’s hope not.
There is, but it seems to be more populated by leftists than actual conservatives.
Okay, let’s say Kennedy had accepted honorary Irish citizenship. Who would have standing to challenge that and, I dunno, cause Constitutional law to be enforced?
Why is this in news?
Because three days ago the Democrats’ report on Trumps illegal gains was published. That report, which it took Congress seven years to gather because Trump absolutely refuses to follow any goddamned LAW, is the only fucking thing the American people will likely ever know about it. It is the gravestone to this particular crime spree that the SCOTUS is okie fuckin dokie with.
Because someone submitted it and nobody removed it.
