Has President Trump violated the Emoluments Clause?

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🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center and Andy Grewal of the University of Iowa discuss questions about the President's business operations. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe toWe the Peopleand our companion podcast,Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and welcome to We
0:08.6	the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.1	The National Constitution Center is the only
0:13.8	institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information
0:18.0	about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Listeners, I hope you like that version.
0:23.5	There was some request to tone down the vaudevillian
0:27.4	tones with which I've usually recited our inspiring congressional mandate
0:30.9	and that was just as dulcet as I could make it.
0:34.2	And this week we are going to explore the history and meaning of the
0:38.0	Amoluments Clause of the US Constitution.
0:40.7	Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states,
0:44.0	no person holding any office of profit or trust,
0:47.4	under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress
0:51.1	except of any kind,
0:52.9	moment, office, or title, of any kind whatever,
0:56.9	from any king, prince, or foreign state.
0:59.2	On January 23rd, the nonprofit legal watchdog group crew filed a lawsuit alleging that President
1:05.2	Donald Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause.
1:08.0	They argued that foreign governments are doing business at Trump hotels and other buildings
1:11.4	in the United States States and that the Trump
1:13.6	organization is conducting business abroad. Has President Trump violated the
1:18.7	foreign emoluments clause and has he violated the domestic emoluments clause found in Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution,
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