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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

That's not specifically for taking bribes, though. That could be for literally anything including things that aren't crimes or aren't forbidden in the constitution. It's a political action, not a legal one.

Something more concrete would be if, during the Biden presidency, Congress passed a law saying that any foreign gift to a federal official including the president goes into a trust or is forcibly confiscated by the federal government and/or sold off to pay the country's debt or something like that. They did basically nothing instead, even knowing that they'd never get that much of a majority in the Senate to actually remove a president for violating the constitution or that hypothetical new law. So there's effectively no actual rule against emoluments despite what that piece of paper says.

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