Editorial Note: The following Article describes an attempt by some in Congress to layout the groundwork for a possible impeachment effort based upon Trump’s unwillingness to arrange his finances so he doesn’t directly enrich himself and abuse his office. While this is a legitimate desire, what will not appear legitimate to the public is anything…
HuffPost – Neither the president nor public should tolerate the built-in-bribery of foreign governments quietly lining the pockets of a person they are seeking to influence on policy. That’s why we have an Emoluments Clause in Article One, Section 9 of the U. S. Constitution. It says that “no person holding any office…shall, without the…
ChicagoTrib – That interpretation, desperately beguiling as it seems, rests on a doubtful reading of Hamilton’s text and a faulty interpretation of the early history of the Electoral College. The essay we really ought to be reading, even during this interregnum, is Federalist 65, in which Hamilton discusses the idea of presidential impeachment. In Federalist…
Inquisitr – “Many elected Republicans, perhaps most, consider Trump to be a threat to their brand and priorities. They worry that Trump is unhinged. (Who, apart from Trump himself, doesn’t?) To see Trump disappear and leave things to Mike Pence, a lockstep party man with all of Trump’s traditional rightist views and none of Trump’s…
