emolument

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Article II, Section 1 and Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibit the president in particular and public officials in general from receiving any emolument from domestic or foreign sources while in office.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2024

District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rejected the DOJ’s narrow interpretation of what constitutes an emolument as “unpersuasive and inconsistent.”

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019

The third judge on the panel, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., focused on what constitutes an illegal emolument.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019

The domestic emolument prohibition prevents the president from getting anything of value from the government other than his official compensation.

From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2018

To the proprietors I owe a particular acknowledgment, for their recent generous vote for the continuance of my salary, and hereby ask their leave to relinquish this emolument at the end of the present month.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks