Elizabeth Warren Says Democrats Will Introduce Presidential Conflict-of-Interest Bill in January
Elizabeth Warren Says Democrats Will Introduce Presidential Conflict-of-Interest Bill in January
Ben Mathis-Lilley
Salon
Today's the day that Donald Trump said he would announce his plan to deal with the many avenues of potential corruption created by the Trump Organization's ongoing foreign and domestic projects. He's since pushed the announcement back until January; meanwhile, his male adult childrenwho Trump says will run the company in their father's absenceare still sitting in on presidential meetings with major American business figures. Midway through a Washington Post article about the subject is this nugget:
Democratic senators including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) said Thursday morning that they would introduce a bill next month requiring the president to disclose and divest from any conflicts, mimicking a law that already binds most public officials
Whether or not the bill passes Congressand Republicans' thus far blasé attitudes toward potential Trump corruption would indicate that it won'tit's still a notable sign of life emitted by a party that, at least in my account, has been slow and subdued in its organized reaction to Trump's violation of long-held democratic norms.
This probably won't work, but at least it's a sign the party is ready to fight.