Sentence examples for on emoluments from inspiring English sources

Other lawsuits against Trump, on emoluments grounds, have been filed, including one by the governments of Maryland and the District of Columbia (none have yet been decided), but Blumenthal believes that his suit will be the one that survives a challenge on standing grounds.

"The most fundamental conflict clause in the US constitution is the prohibition on emoluments on payments, presents or other things of value being given to American political officials including the president".

But as long as Trump and his family retain ownership in business enterprises that involve foreign governments, state-owned entities or foreign government officials, the Constitution's ban on "emoluments" is likely to hang over his presidency.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote, the ban on emoluments would ensure there was "no pecuniary inducement to renounce or desert the independence intended for him by the Constitution".

Courts have not ruled on claims that the president has violated the ban on emoluments, but the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel has issued internal opinions interpreting its meaning and stressing that it applies only to foreign governments, not to other foreign entities.

There's more than one Emoluments Clause in the Constitution, however.

And in 2009, the OLC advised Obama that he was bound by the ban on foreign emoluments because "the President surely 'holds an Office of Profit or Trust,' but its lawyers said he nonetheless could accept the Nobel Prize, valued at $1.4 million, because the Nobel Committee is a private foundation, not a foreign state. .

Health block grants come from the central government's internal revenues and are spent on personnel emoluments, other charges, and a development grant, whereas basket funds are finances that are contributed to the country by several bilateral and multilateral development partners and spent on other charges (24, 25).

But ethics experts agree there is no firm consensus on whether the emoluments clause applies to fair market value payments.

Monday's artwork cycled through three projections: One read, "Pay Trump bribes here"; another, "Emoluments welcome" on top of the flags of Russia, Turkey, China and Saudi Arabia; and a third showed the Emoluments Clause in its entirety.

The Harvard lawyers laying the case for impeachment on the grounds of the "emoluments" or profits from overseas that would fatally compromise a Trump regime.