emoluments

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• 7/29/18
  

  The Framers Tried to Block Foreign Influence Over Our Elections

  by David O. Stewart

  History showed them why they had to be concerned.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-11-17
  

  Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

  by Joshua Zeitz

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

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-10-17
  

  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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• 2-12-17
  

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

  by Corey M. Brooks

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

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• 2-5-17
  

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

  by Richard J. Morris

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

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• SOURCE: Brookings Institution
  12-16-16
  

  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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• 12-18-16
  

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

  by Lawrence A. Peskin

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

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  12-2-16
  

  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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• SOURCE: Constitution Daily
  11-22-16
  

  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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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-15-16
  

  The History Behind Donald Trump’s Refusing a Presidential Salary

  It goes all the way back to George Washington.