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The framers wanted to insulate the president and federal officials from corrupting influences, but a new law is needed to ...
Disclosure of the gift of a proposed new Air Force One doesn't resolve the ensuing ethical questions.
This column was written before a Defense Department spokesman confirmed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had accepted ...
Ahead of that trip, the Qatari royal family offered his administration the gift of a luxury Boeing 747-8 dubbed a “flying palace” and estimated to be worth $400million. Under the terms of the offer, ...
Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant Under the Trump administration, a troubling narrative has emerged that America might as ...
Critics argue that accepting the gift from Qatar could create foreign influence and compromise U.S. decision-making in ...
The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts ...
Democrats in Congress have quickly denounced the arrangement, calling it a breach of the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, ...
Few provisions of the Constitution speak with the clarity of the Emoluments Clause. If President Donald Trump had obeyed its ...
The Constitution's emoluments clause is clear, accepting the plane as a gift is illegal. We're way past that.