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• Originally published 06/12/2017

  Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

  Joshua Zeitz

  The Justice Department’s lawyers are getting the founding fathers all wrong.

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• Originally published 06/12/2017

  Foreign payments to Trump’s businesses are legally permitted, argues Justice Department

  In a 70-page legal brief responding to a liberal watchdog group’s lawsuit, the administration said that market-rate payments for goods or services made to the president’s real estate, hotel and golf companies do not constitute emoluments as defined by the Constitution.

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• Originally published 02/01/2017

  The Appalling Echo this Historian Hears in Trump’s Rebuke to the Media

  Corey M. Brooks

  It sounds like the arguments made in antebellum America by proslavery activists.

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• Originally published 01/31/2017

  Trump’s Lawyer Is Wrong. The President Is Violating the Emoluments Clause.

  Richard J. Morris

  A careful review of the way the word was used in the 18th century shows this.

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• Originally published 12/28/2016

  New Brookings study lays out the history of emoluments clause in the Constitution

  "Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump."

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• Originally published 12/15/2016

  Can Donald Trump Profit from Businesses with Connections to Foreign Governments Once He’s President?

  Lawrence A. Peskin

  Some suggest he’d be in violation of the Emoluments Clause in the Constitution. They’re wrong.

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• Originally published 12/02/2016

  Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He Continues to Own His Businesses

  The meaning of the Emoluments Clause is fairly clear. And it all goes back to a diamond-encrusted snuffbox Ben Franklin got from Louis XVI.

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• Originally published 11/28/2016

  What is an emolument and why do we care?

  President-elect Donald J. Trump might have some unique decisions to make about how his business assets are managed as he serves in the White House, thanks to an obscure constitutional clause.

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• Originally published 11/16/2016

  The History Behind Donald Trump’s Refusing a Presidential Salary

  It goes all the way back to George Washington.