Posted on 12/15/2016 10:27:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts promised on Thursday that she, along with four other Democratic senators, will introduce legislation to force President-elect Donald Trump to divest entirely from his business empire.
"Americans deserve to know that the president is doing what's best for the country — not using his office to do what's best for himself," she tweeted. "The only way for @realDonaldTrump to eliminate conflicts-of-interest is to divest his financial interests and place them in a blind trust."
The Massachusetts Democrat wrote that Sens. Ben Cardin of Maryland, Chris Coons of Delaware, Dick Durbin of Illinois, and Jeff Merkley of Oregon will introduce the legislation next month that seeks to implement the Emoluments Clause, a passage in the Constitution that forbids government officials from receiving gifts from foreign governments.
As The Washington Post reported last month, a payment from a foreign official or state-owned company to a Trump hotel or other company bearing his name may violate the clause. So could favorable legislation or treatment overseas from a government aimed at benefiting a Trump property. But, some have argued that the clause does not apply to the presidency.
After canceling a highly anticipated press conference set for Thursday on what he would do regarding his business empire, Trump announced in a series of tweets early this week that "even though I am not mandated by law to do so," he would leave his businesses prior to inauguration.
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Only democrats are allowed to use the office for their own benifit.
Elizabeth: HOW?
(Give it a minute.....)
This squaw is getting to be a real pain in the ass.
Only democrats are allowed to use the office for their own benifit.
Is that an American Indian thing?
The Cherokee on the warpath.
I think he should make Putin temporary owner just to really “dig at them”
Posturing for the press and the party's rabid cattle, who are to stupid to realize that the Dems no longer control the Senate.
Cheap empty “Fight for you” rhetoric.
But, they are ‘public servants’, sacrificing their lives to help ‘the people’.. The Clintons public serviced their way to ~$260 million dollars..
BILL OF ATTAINDER
Definition: A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial.
The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.”
“The Bill of Attainder Clause was intended not as a narrow, technical (and therefore soon to be outmoded) prohibition, but rather as an implementation of the separation of powers, a general safeguard against legislative exercise of the judicial function or more simply - trial by legislature.” U.S. v. Brown, 381 U.S. 437, 440 (1965).
How about Trump investigating and prosecuting insider trading by these commiecrats?
How about Trump investigating and prosecuting insider trading by these commiecrats?
They haven’t realized that they are the fringe party and only represent the coastal elites...
George Washington owned Mt. Vernon, an enterprise of 8,000 acres with multiple small manufacturing businesses.
He had dozens of contracts with international interests for export of goods and commodities. Hell, he was even in the tobacco and liquor business.
His wealth was enormous.
And he divested nothing.
Also, I’m certain Warren never even gave a thought to whether such legislation would pass both houses or be signed by the POTUS. Or whether, if done under Obama, how to enforce it.
Because it’s NOT ENFORCEABLE.
Hmmm... doesn’t appear to be engine-like to me. Looks more like a WASP.
Noting that low-information Sen. Warren is a good example why the states should never have ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment imo, please consider the following side note about rich presidents.
Not only were many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention wealthy, but President George Washington was probably one of the wealthiest citizens of his time.
Maybe a GOP senator with a spine will attach a rider to their bill that requires all congressman to divest of their business holdings so no one has a perceived self interest...
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