Constitution

Why Trump Would Almost Certainly Be Violating the Constitution If He Continues to Own His Businesses

President elect Donald Trump, left, arrives with his family to give his acceptance speech at an election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Far from ending with President-elect Trump’s announcement that he will separate himself from the management of his business empire, the constitutional debate about the meaning of the Emoluments Clause 2014 and whether Trump will be violating it 2014 is likely just beginning.

LIONEL PODCAST: Hairsplitting and Parsing, Dissecting and Analysis — Higher Order Synthesis

The most beautiful words ever enunciated and the most surely under threat of extinction. Broadly inclusive yet exquisitely imprecise. Magnificently vague in coverage yet the first line of defense against tyranny of expression and thought and the expression of the simple idea. The troublesome idea. The noxious and noisome. This is the essence of who we are as a republic. Let me explain and give examples accordingly.