How to Use emolument in a Sentence

emolument

noun

• The case in Messitte’s court is one of three emoluments lawsuits against Trump.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
• The attorneys general aren’t the first to sue Trump over emoluments.
  — Brian Witte, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• How could Bevin's stay at Trump's hotel violate the emoluments clause?
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2019
• At issue is the meaning of the emolument clause of the Constitution in Article I, Section 9.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
• No one knows, because no court has ever made a final emoluments clause judgment.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Even the emoluments clause, little more than a sentence fragment, gets more notice nowadays.
  — James W. Lucas, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
• What is the extent of the emoluments received not just by his underlings but by the president himself and his family?
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Two other emoluments clause lawsuits against President Trump are working their way through the courts.
  — Pete Williams, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2019
• The emoluments clause has come up repeatedly since Trump took office.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
• The ruling is believed to be the first in 230 years interpreting what the constitutional framers meant by the emoluments clauses.
  — Sharon Lafraniere, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• Although the emoluments clause has a complex history, the request by the lawmakers is rather simple.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 14 June 2017
• The Trump era sometimes feels like a trip through obscure and rarely used mechanisms of federal power, ranging from the emoluments clause to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
  — Matt Ford, New Republic, 7 Feb. 2018
• In December, a federal judge in NY ruled that plaintiffs in two other emoluments suits lacked standing, so dismissed the case.
  — Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
• This suit was the first of three major lawsuits alleging Trump violated the emoluments clause.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2019
• Zephyr Teachout is now part of a legal team going after Trump for violating the emoluments clause, one of the many new vocabulary-builders the pros have taught us since the election.
  — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2018
• The only issues to resolve are whether those payments are prohibited emoluments and if so what the remedy might be.
  — Frank Bowman, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
• This potential offense is broader than the emoluments clause.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The foreign emoluments clause is not just a technical requirement.
  — NBC News, 26 Aug. 2019
• The judge in the future may have to decide what constitutes an emolument and how the constitutional provisions apply to the president.
  — Brent Kendall, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
• Advisers to the president have argued that the emoluments clause doesn't apply to business transactions like hotel room rentals.
  — Ben Popken, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2017
• The emoluments clause bars the president from receiving gifts and payments from foreign governments.
  — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2017
• This flew in the face of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause, which forbids the president from accepting any money, through any means, from foreign governments.
  — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2019
• There remains disagreement between the two sides about what constitutes an emolument.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• The lawsuit seeks a declaratory judgement from the court declaring that Trump is subject to the Emoluments Clause, and an order enjoining Trump from accepting emoluments.
  — Steve Reilly, USA TODAY, 14 June 2017
• Some critics say the payments may violate a provision of the Constitution known as the domestic emoluments clause.
  — Cristina Alesci, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• An attorney for the Democrats told the court Monday that the president was required to receive consent from Congress before accepting emoluments.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Trump needs to immediately divest from his businesses and comply with the emoluments clause.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 6 Jan. 2020
• The suits allege that foreign governments’ use of Trump’s hotels and other properties violates the emoluments clause.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2018
• To be sure, Congress hasn’t been too vigilant about the Constitution (e.g., failing to call Trump to account for his business interests that violate the emoluments clause).
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• In legal filings, the Justice Department has argued that courts do not have the authority to enforce the emoluments provisions.
  — Jonathan O'Connell, Sun-Sentinel.com, 10 Jan. 2018

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