âHad the Framers intended the Emoluments Clauses to encompass benefits arising from a federal officialâs private commercial transactions with a foreign state, or in case of a President, with a foreign, federal, or state instrumentality, surely someone would have raised concerns about whether foreign governments or government-owned corporations may have been among the customers of the farm and other products regularly exported by early Presidents,â the court doc said.
Are they trying to argue that, because some of the early Presidentsâ farm businesses employed slave labor, Chiselinâ Trumpâs businesses should be able to employ slave labor, too?
3/5 of the time, only.
âNor can the term âpresentâ naturally be read to include benefits tendered to a U.S. official by operation of law, such as foreign trademarks, licenses, permits, and approvals granted to an officialâs private business, as Plaintiffs allege,â the filing added.
In other words they are trying to say that trump can do anything he wants to make himself richer while president and if we donât like it we can all go pound sand.
So the DOJ is using George Washington as their precedent? Someone save us all.
under Sessions, we have a DoJ thatâs apparently taken a loyalty oath to Trump
And why not? He doesnât have anyone else whoâll support him at this point. This is why isolating their victims from the outside world is a classic predatory NPD tactic.
CREWâs position.
âItâs clear from the governmentâs response that they donât believe anyone can go to court to stop the president from systematically violating the constitution,â CREW said in a statement. âWe heartily disagree and look forward to our day in court."
As part of the suit, CREW seeks access to Trumpâs tax returns and other financial records. The group has said Trump should liquidate his business holdings and put the proceeds in a blind trust.
What would the DOJ say or do if the name was Obama or Clinton? Would the majority leadership in both the house and senate just sit their and play with themselves OR would they go after Clinton and violation of the very clear emoluments clause (law)?
Laws and rules only apply to democrats and common citizensâŚRepublicans and their Oligarchy are above the law and donât you people forget it!
True. But why is the Democratic Party essentially run by moderate Democrats? âModerate Democratâ being defined as a Democrat willing to vote with Republicans.
Why, Bankruptcy Barbie would never engage in some unseemly business practiceâŚ
The DoJ position is not limited to the payment of money, theyâre also fine with payment in kind âsuch as foreign trademarks, licenses, permits, and approvals granted to an officialâs private business.â
Itâs run by the DNC, which encompasses a broad range of ideological positions, as it should do-----and America is basically a left-of-center nation.
Any Democrat worth his salt is always willing to work across the aisle.
Politics, when properly practiced, is the art of compromise.
Ideological purity is for suckers.
IOKIYAFR
In Emoluments and Conflicts of Interest, as in Extramarital Sex
In the decision whether or not to Impeach for violating the Constitution
its always OK if youâre a fucking republican
Only the personnel has changed! Now Sessions has to sign off on his bossâs paperwork! And guess what his standard reaction is!
Itâs also how pedophiles operate. Person in a position of perceive power, to the child, isolates the child, compliments them to make him/her feel special, woos them with praise and trinkets, abuses them and then swears them to secrecy under threat of harm to them or their families.
Just sayinââŚ
A minor correction, if you donât mind⌠any politician worth his [her] salt is willing to work across the aisle.
Democrats are the only ones who even attempt this these days. That obviously wasnât always the case.
In other words,Emperor Trumpanzee is immune from all laws and the Constitution according to Mutt Sessions and his Justice Department minions. Sessions would have us believe that Trumpanzee is free to feed at the public trough as long and as much as he likes without consequence.I am hopeful the Court will disagree with this argument.
Ah so the Emoluments clause of the Constitution was put there simply to let it be known that a President needs to set up a pass-through and not take the payments himself directly!
Good to know.