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EdwardT
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Retired
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Dirtbag is spot on.
Mr. T will betray the the Emoluments Clause
Where is the Emoluments Clause? Where in the Constitution?
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WBraun
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betray a number of Articles of the Constitution
The past criminals in the District of Criminals have been doing this for years already.
Meanwhile the you blind fools never said a word .....
Plus your beloved lying Fake News, Washington Post, had to apologize for lying again about Russian hacking bullsh!t that you fools always gobble up every time.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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EdwardT, Why be pointedly ignorant?
"No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
United States Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
Werner, you got game, but when it comes to economics and politics you gotta dig a little deeper.
History is clear that deep money manipulates weak democracies to elect nationalistic populist strongmen to be the "front man" for their oligarchies.
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dirtbag
climber
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Mark, I've pointed out the emoluments clause to him before. He'd rather be an as#@&%e.
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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House Republicans, overriding their top leaders, voted on Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.
The move to effectively kill the Office of Congressional Ethics was not made public until late Monday, when Representative Robert W. Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change. There was no advance notice or debate on the measure.
Hahahaha. Republican buffoons (redundant, I know) are already having to undo their dumb-shit moves.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/312496-house-gop-scraps-plan-to-gut-ethics-watchdog-after-emergency-meeting
Curt
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Kind of saw that one coming.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
Jan 3, 2017 - 08:53am PT
EdwardT, Why be pointedly ignorant?
I'm not being pointedly ignorant. I'm trying to help you and dirtbag see your own ignorance.
The Emoluments Clause, which dirtbag and you seem to have chubbies for, is in Article I of the Constitution, which applies to The Legislative Branch, not The Executive Branch.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Seriously? Then why are pundits talking about it? The GAO even commented on it.
Please provide the correct passage of the Constitution where this issue is clearly resolved, as I'm curious.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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"Reading the Constitution as a whole, it would require extraordinary legal and linguistic gymnastics to explain how the President is excluded from the Emoluments Clause. But even if the Constitution’s text and structure left any doubt, every other interpretive tool supports the conclusion that the Emoluments Clause applies to the President."
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gs_121616_emoluments-clause1.pdf
Rightwing deniers will label the Brookings Institute as a left wing, libtard, fake news, propaganda machine when they don't agree with them, so having any sort of fact-based discussion is really pointless.
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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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I'd guess that the vote taken last night to kill the watchdog was just a litmus test to see what the public will quietly accept.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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EdwardT, Where in the clause does it state the clause only pertains to Congress? Where in the clause does it state that the president is exempt?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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The average age at which a Supreme Court justice retires is 78.7 years old. Justice Kennedy will be 80 when the next president takes office, Justice Ginsburg will be 83, and Justice Breyer will be 78. Considering the average retirement age and the ages of these justices, there could be as many as four new justices on the court before the next president leaves office.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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first carrier and now ford go get a job in Michigan!
liberals heads are exploding!
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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"first carrier and now ford go get a job in Michigan!"
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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