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A-06 — Presidential Conflicts of Interest and Emoluments

Generalized Institutional Concern

The constitutional and statutory framework does not adequately prevent a president from retaining financial interests that may receive benefits from foreign, federal, state, or private actors seeking influence.

Active Issues

Prior Issue Numbers

These numbers were assigned during preliminary review but did not become separate proposals. They are listed only to explain gaps in the sequence.

  • EMOL-002 through EMOL-014 — Merged into EMOL-001 as substantive definitions, manifestations, disclosure and consent rules, enforcement mechanisms, remedies, or anti-circumvention safeguards.

Issue Boundaries

  • EMOL-001 owns the general presidential financial-conflict and Emoluments Clause framework, including divestment, statutory coverage, definitions, entity and family attribution, foreign and domestic patronage, disclosure, congressional consent, standing, enforcement, disgorgement, timing, and anti-circumvention. HOR-029 should be evaluated first as an EMOL-001 manifestation rather than as a presumptively independent proposal.
  • EMOL-015 owns the narrower conflict created when the executive branch controls both sides of litigation, settlement, payment, or tax administration involving a President or other covered executive official.

Notes

EMOL-015 is an 83/100 Review Ready conflict-of-interest and settlement-authority proposal after internal project review. The President and a narrowly defined Vice President lane are expressly covered. The bill supplies automatic adversity screening, controlled maintenance with periodic review, payment restrictions, a bounded D.D.C. enforcement action, recipient process, protected-information procedures, explicit appeals, and a universal categorical audit-immunity amendment. Publication-form verification is complete; qualified constitutional, federal-courts, tax, appropriations, judicial-administration, and legislative-counsel review remains required.

EMOL-001 remains in development and next requires source development, a concrete comprehensive vehicle, and its first formal internal review. EMOL-015 remains independently developed and Review Ready.