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The emoluments clause seems pretty clear. Is there no teeth behind this? No way to enforce it? If not then Emoluments clause is just a suggestion, right?
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)Had the framers intended that, they either would have merely listed it as another basis for impeachment or not listed it at all (as it is basically implied by high crimes and misdemeanors).
I believe congress could enforce it by law, though I'm not sure they've done that re the president.
What I think they can do is simply claim that any such emoluments do not belong to the president, but belong to the federal government itself. So the federal government could send Donnie a bill.
Not that he'd pay it,....
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)For one thing, he's hiding his financial records. And even if his immediate earnings from, say, holding the G7 summit at his property were confiscated, there will be future earnings as a result of having the summit there (from the publicity, from the renovations, etc.).
Plus, he'd tie it up in courts for years.
I think impeachment and removal is the only recourse.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)But that's very difficult, as we've seen. Among other things, standing (i.e. who actually has the right to sue) is difficult to establish and even if it is, the remedy and ultimate enforcement mechanism aren't clear.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)that the court believes violates the emoluments clause (a case is working its way through the courts currently)
but it seems more likely the court would ultimately pass this to Congress to enforce.
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)for violations of its text by the executive branch is impeachment. This isnt just emoluments its everything.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)enforcement power there is against a President. Period. More's the pity, perhaps.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)or very rarely, does not mean it is legal.
It means that we now have someone that is willing to break precedent and the law. That does not mean the law is obsolete.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)These are all real quotes from the pool report filed just moments ago.
On whistleblower:
Do we have to protect a whistleblower who gives a false account? I dont know. You tell me.
Its possibly Schiff.
Why didnt he say he met with the whistleblower.
Im trying to get out of wars. We may have to get in wars, too.
I have to fight off these lowlifes at the same time Im negotiating these deals.
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I own a property in Florida
I would have given it for nothing.
Touts giving up salary, says probably only George Washington did that, not Obama
Im very good a real estate.
Everyone in the G-7 would have had their own building.
Security, next to Miami airport
The Democrats went crazy, even though I would have done it free.
Not for promotion, but no
I dont need promotion. I dont need promotion.
It would have been the best G-7 ever.
Washington ran business at the same time he was president
Obama made a deal for a book. Did he run a business?
He has a deal with Netflix. When did they start talking about that?
You people with this phony Emoluments Clause
Actually losing money
Its cost me between $2 billion and $5 billion
Would do it again
If youre rich, it doesnt matter.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-people-with-this-phony-emoluments-clause-and-more-from-the-crazed-prez