11-29-2016, 07:13 PM
(11-29-2016, 06:42 PM)Benton Wrote: I thought that pertained to granting of titles or gifts from foreign countries?
It may be in there, but it's one of those things that hasn't been practiced in a while. Presidents (or other federal agents) weren't supposed to accept gifts from other countries, but it's happened going back to at least the 1800s. Gift giving, I'm not so sure how our presidents stack up. Trump will probably be the first president to give Russia anything, like, say, America.
Emoluments are nothing more than returns for holding an office. So if a foreign state, the federal government, or a state government, utilizes a Trump property because of his position as President once he takes office, then that could be viewed in the courts as an emolument. We can't get a ruling on this until he is inaugurated, though, as it does not become justiciable until that point.
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