At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Jamie Raskin asks Pam Bondi whether it would violate the Domestic Emoluments Clause for her to settle Trump's $10 billion case or his other claims against the government. Raskin quotes Trump saying "I'm the one that makes the deal" and "I kind of have to work it out with myself." Bondi's answer: "I'm not going to discuss pending litigation."
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- Jamie Raskin
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- hearing - House Judiciary Committee
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Now, I want to ask you the question of whether you think it would violate the Domestic Emoluments Clause for you to settle that $10 billion case or any of the other claims that the president has made against the government. He himself has remarked, it's interesting because I'm the one that makes the deal, right? And he says, I kind of have to work it out with myself. Do you think it would violate the Domestic Abolumines Clause for the president to work out a deal from people who are his subordinates under his unitary executive theory to get money in one of these cases? I'm not going to discuss pending litigation. Okay, so theoretically you're saying because his privacy rights were violated in that tax case, and they were.
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