Too many "unwritten rules". . .

[RexCasual]

Presidential candidates should turn over their tax returns.
Presidents should divest themselves from active business interests.
Presidents shouldn't fire FBI Directors while they're under investigation.
Presidents shouldn't make knowingly false claims.
AG's shouldn't be making decisions in matters they've already recused themselves from.

Let's get some of these unwritten rules committed to paper and policy. Had Trump been forced to release his taxes during the primaries, we might not be in this mess. If this presidency has shown us anything, it that customs and traditions and unwritten rules don't mean anything to crooks like Trump and Sessions.

Let's get some of these rules on paper and give them teeth. If not for us, for future generations.

The honor system just can't be trusted anymore.

[Freddie]

1. A candidate for potus should be required to have SOME experience as an elected official

State rep or mayor of a small city is fine, or so many years as an officer in the military. Something. This is NOT a job for an amateur.

[edhopper]

2. The business interest

is in the Constitution. If they followed the emollient clause. Which they are running from.

[gratuitous]

3. I have a friend who is a constitutional scholar

A real legal scholar, not like one of those numerous scholars Sarah Sanders alleged that the White House had consulted. He was skeptical of any suit brought under the emoluments clause, simply because there was not case law on it. I thought that was a good opinion as far as it went, but it overlooked something rather obvious: There have been no cases brought under the emoluments clause because everyone understood that this was something you shouldn't do. But even the UConn women's basketball team eventually lost a game, and after 44 consecutive presidents who understood the law, the United States now has a president who cares nothing for the customs, forms, or even the specific language of the Constitution and the U.S. Code.