Blackrook
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- Jun 20, 2014
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You need to explain where you're going with this. You can't just cite the law and then not explain why you cited it.So you’re just choosing to ignore the actual text? Got it.You’re a lawyer? You have got to be fucking kidding me lol.Really? I'm a lawyer so I'd like to see what case, statute, rule or regulation you are citing to support that statement.Biden’s guilt is irrelevant to the point. It is illegal for a public official to gain anything of value from a foreign power for the sake of undermining anyone within the country....please someone explain why Trump is in trouble? I'm not following...
What Is the Emoluments Clause?
The foreign emoluments clause also broadly encompasses any kind of profit, benefit, advantage, or service, not merely gifts of money or valuable objects. Thus, it would prohibit a federal officeholder from receiving special consideration in business transactions with a foreign state (or with a corporation owned or managed by a foreign state) that gave the officeholder a competitive advantage over other businesses. Arguably, as the legal scholar Laurence Tribe and others have suggested, the clause would forbid even competitively fair transactions with foreign states, because the profit accruing to the officeholder would fall within the ordinary meaning of “emolument,” and because such arrangements would threaten exactly the kind of improper influence that the clause was intended to prevent.
The Emoluments clause is for receiving gifts or money, not releasing public information or enforcing the law.
I would say nice try, but it was really wasn’t.