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 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

The next unsettled question: What, exactly, is an emolument?

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2018

The Sailor was informed by this new and providential friend that he had stood out for the princely emolument of seventeen and a tizzey, and had been able to get it.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.