The President-Elected responded to charges of violating the Emoluments Clause. Is it enough?
The Emoluments Clause in the Constitution bars any President from deriving financial advantage for their personal businesses, or for themselves. Democrats and democratic lawyers, as well as a former White House counsel for President Bush, had warned that Trump could be impeached the second he took the oath of office if he had not separated himself from his business interests.
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IfP announces the release of the Trump Formal Impeachment Petition. This method for impeaching a President uses a rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives (“Jefferson’s Manual”). This document empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves. Our previous versions of this document were merely PDFs that people could download and send in themselves. This left us without the ability to track our progress toward impeaching any particular individual. Upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump, we have released a new version of the document that can be filled out online, and will allow us to track the progress nationwide, and state-by-state, as individuals fill out the petition. 