Lawfare Archive: Norm Eisen on the Emoluments Clause
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🗓️ 19 January 2025
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From February 11, 2017: Donald Trump's election as president brought a surge of interest in the previously obscure Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States]” from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” Norm Eisen and Richard Painter, ethics experts for Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, have been leading the charge to hold Trump accountable under the Emoluments Clause for his failure to divest of his businesses. Recently, they filed suit against him in their capacity as chair and vice-chair of the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Benjamin Wittes chats with Norm about the Emoluments Clause, the lawsuit, and what all this has to do with national security.
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| 1:50.0 | 2005. |
| 1:51.0 | With Donald Trump set to be inaugurated Monday as the 47th President of the United States, |
| 1:57.0 | his many conflicts of interest raise major ethics concerns. |
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