Emoluments fight's just getting started
By KARL RACINE, BEN FROSH and NORMAN EISEN
02/08/2021 04:30 AM EST
... the Supreme Court declared that our lawsuit and Trump’s appeal of it were moot ... but we still secured a significant victory: Judge Peter J. Messitte of the Maryland federal district court ruled in 2018, the year after we filed suit, that the Constitution forbids the president from receiving anything of value from a foreign or domestic government.
His decision was the first time a court ruled that the Constitution broadly prohibits such transactions, rejecting Trump’s much narrower interpretation that the clause prohibited only transactions involving personal services. Under this interpretation, Trump would not be able to accept payment if he served as a personal driver to Saudi Arabia’s King Mohammed Bin Salman while in office, but the president’s hotels and businesses would be able to accept millions of dollars in cash from the Saudi leader.) As a result of Judge Messitte’s decision, the law we made along the way—still in force—set a standard by which all future presidents will be judged. Now Congress must build upon that to broadly preclude future presidential conflicts and self-dealing.
Our lawsuit focused on two little-known parts of the Constitution whose contours had rarely been litigated: the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses. The former prohibits holders of elected office from taking “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever” from a foreign government without congressional authorization; the latter prohibits them from taking any such benefit from the states ...
Fortunately, Congress is reportedly set to consider legislation in the weeks ahead—the landmark HR1-SB1 package, sponsored by Congressman John Sarbanes and Senator Jeff Merkley—that offers several badly-needed reforms to protect the public from a corrupt president ...
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/08/donald-trump-emoluments-presidential-corruption-466484
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about IQ45's mis-administration, I cannot understand how Congress would just ignore the flagrant violations of law that they saw and did NOTHING about! The graft, the ignoring of subpoenas, the failing to nominate people for offices that required congressional approval but instead appoint 'acting' people (and terrible actors they were!).
There should be independent investigations on so many levels - it is almost impossible to know where to start! 
