Political Quotes

“Ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, all of this, right? Well, I guess the Constitution is absurd because the Founders of the Constitution took pains to build not one but two Emoluments Clauses right into the text of the Constitution. Article I, section 9, clause 8 says that no one who comes to work in this room, nor the President of the United States, can collect any present emolument--which means any payment--office or title of any kind whatever--the most absolute, categorical language you will find in the Constitution--of any kind whatever from a foreign prince, king, or government, without the consent of Congress. That is number one. Then, number two, in the domestic Emoluments Clause, the Founders wrote in that the President was limited to his salary, which could be neither increased nor decreased by this. My friend is waving the newspaper, and I can't wait to get to refute his point. He is going to have to read a little more deeply into judicial opinions if he is going to cite them on the floor of the House of Representatives, because this decision was simply that Maryland and the District of Columbia, whose attorneys general came forward to say that the President's receipt of emoluments at the Trump Hotel was damaging local business, did not have standing; and the court said it is up to Congress to decide this because they didn't have standing, as States, to hear it. It was not on the merits of the case, if you go back and look.…”