The Constitution forbids bribery *3 separate times*.
So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.
So important to the Founders they included two emoluments clauses, and made it the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
The Constitution is clear on banning bribery. It's just that Congress and the courts decided to pretend otherwise.
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Kevin M. Kruse
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-61-70#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493452
We may be out of virtue, and no longer deserve Constitutional order.
Isn’t it time that the constitution was updated to clarify the cost and the consequences?
Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Email them through their websites.
Tell them this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Go see your constituents in the concentration camps in El Salvador.
Or don’t ask for money…
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Trump's sons going around the world hat in hand and collecting BILLIONS while Trump is president barely registers.
He then not only immediately joined a party but joined the party that opposed his Constitution
I don't think they realize what the Bible says about their actions. 🤷🏻♂️
The constitution is toothless kinda, which is disillusioning as hell.
That some of them have accepted gifts from people with business before the Court is purely coincidental, of course.
People know, and can't do anything about it, so they don't bother talking about it.
They are all scared excrement-less of him because he has (through Putin) stuff on them, because he can primary them , or because his thugs threaten them.
The deeply corrupting influence of money in our politics shouldn’t be understated.
Can a private individual or organization sue?
Can a state prosecutor prosecute?
Can a state legislature start an action?
(Or is there no-one besides Congress who can act?)
What does the Constitution and law lay out as the available next steps?
- Sam Alito soon
I don’t think so.
Checkmate libs.
“They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances.”
The guardrails, such as they were, have been removed.
Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
The Constitution bans govt officials—explicitly including the president—from accepting things of value from foreign or domestic interests. It doesn't make an exception for business. That'd be dumb.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=978876511082032&id=100068790762420
Trump will then reward those who obey. And punish those who resist. And R senators are on board with this.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3lluxkmx7wc2m
George Washington should have been put in prison for foreign emoluments without permission of Congress.
The flimsy excuse that it's not bribery if money from foreign interests goes into an account called "my wholly owned private business" instead of "personal" is just nonsense.
Trump 2: Do all the crimes.
The entire gop are co-defendants, for enabling and protecting him.