We long assumed that certain limits on presidential power needed no enforcement — that any occupant of the office would respect them out of basic decency. That assumption has proven naive. What was once custom must now be law. We call on Congress to enact binding statutory requirements: full financial disclosure, divestment from conflicting business interests, and a hard prohibition on gifts and payments from foreign powers. No future president should be able to treat the absence of a rule as permission.
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We long assumed that certain limits on presidential power needed no enforcement — that any occupant of the office would respect them out of basic decency. That assumption has proven naive. What was once custom must now be law. We call on Congress to enact binding statutory requirements: full financial disclosure, divestment from conflicting business interests, and a hard prohibition on gifts and payments from foreign powers. No future president should be able to treat the absence of a rule as permission.
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