Emoluments

Two Sandwiches · May 16, 2020

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This ad from the Lincoln Project is what I'm talking about. People might not understand the term emoluments but they understand getting rich off of the office.

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Wish they'd juxtapose that with what he's accusing Biden of....

Funny you haven't heard much on that lately...

NewRoxFan · Jan 25, 2021

Apparently, this supreme court believes that a president should be able to profit from the presidency while in office... eliminating the emoluments clause and establishing precedence for future presidents...

Supreme Court dismisses emolument cases against Trump

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government. The court instructed the lower courts to wipe away a previous lower court opinion that went against Trump because he is no longer in office. It leaves unresolved a novel question raised in the case because Trump, unlike other presidents, did not use a blind trust when he assumed the presidency, but instead continued to retain an interest in his businesses and let those businesses to take money from foreign and domestic governments. The order was issued without comment or dissent.
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"The Supreme Court's procedural order not only wipes away two lower court rulings, but it also orders dismissal of the entire dispute -- leaving for some other time resolution of the many questions Trump's conduct raised about the Emoluments Clause," said Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "Ordinarily, the Court pursues such a step only when the prevailing party moots a case while the appeal is pending -- as opposed to here, where the disputes became moot because Trump's term ended," he added. "Today's orders suggest that the court is increasingly willing to invoke this doctrine to avoid highly charged political disputes, even if the mootness wasn't caused by the parties that won below."
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/emoluments-supreme-court-donald-trump-case/index.html

fchowd0311 · Jan 25, 2021

NewRoxFan said: ↑

Apparently, this supreme court believes that a president should be able to profit from the presidency while in office... eliminating the emoluments clause and establishing precedence for future presidents...

Supreme Court dismisses emolument cases against Trump

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/emoluments-supreme-court-donald-trump-case/index.html
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Looks like Trump's SCOTUS picks saved him on this front.

Lifetime appointments for the highest court in the land based in whether they will scratch the president's back who appointed them. Lovely time America. I'm sure this is what the founders wanted in our supreme court.

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