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Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is testifying in the Senate Judiciary Committee

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With today's vote electing Donald Trump, two of our last three Presidents will have been chosen by a minority of voters.

Bush and Obama Attorneys are warning that Emoluments Clause violations are unavoidable if President-elect Donald Trump does not divest of his assets and create a true blind trust prior to taking office. The memo is written by Richard Painter and Norman Eisen White House Ethics Czars from the Administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama and noted constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe.

Michigan senators, under pressure from Common Cause activists, have dropped a plan to toughen the state's voter ID law.

President-elect Donald Trump's deal to serve as executive producer of "The Celebrity Apprentice" raises legal, ethical and constitutional questions.