Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign #emoluments by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress.
Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.
@GottaLaff
The preamble to the constitution says that one of the purposes for creating this country was to promote the general welfare.
If this were accepted as law, we could knock down a lot of bad legislation.
@GottaLaff it's amazing to me that the Constitution can just straight up say "this is not allowed, it is illegal, it SHALL NOT HAPPEN", and people will say we need to pass laws to make the thing illegal.
The president SHALL NOT accept foreign emoluments, for example. A traitor CANNOT hold office.
Why is the first amendment treated any differently? We never passed a law saying that the first amendment is enforceable, and apparently that's necessary for some stupid reason.
@GottaLaff “without congressional approval” is vague and unspecific. Would be just fine in normal times but these are for sure abnormal days.
I also want to hear the penalty phase for these laws since that’s been super loosey goosey for just about everything else.