Thread by @CREWcrew

Here’s a radical idea: Let’s hold presidents accountable to the people.

Here’s how:

1. Require presidential (and VP) candidates to release their tax returns

2. Require those candidates to make a plan to divest from all conflicting assets

3. Empower OGE to enforce divestiture -- and quickly -- within 30 days

4. Make the Emoluments Clauses of the Constitution more easily enforceable, so any future president couldn’t run out the clock on facing justice for his corruption

5. Require law enforcement agencies to keep a log of enforcement-related communications with White House officials or members of Congress, and have an inspector general review that log.

Remember the tampering with Roger Stone’s sentencing?

6. Appoint a special counsel to decide whether the DOJ should intervene in cases on behalf of the president.

(AKA no more taxpayer-funded defense of the president in decades old rape cases)

7. Make it clear that nepotism laws apply to the president, because family connections should not determine who serves in government roles.

We’re looking at you, Jared and Ivanka.

8. Amend federal procurement law to ensure that immediate family members of the president or VP cannot hold or benefit from government contracts. This is a big one.

We have a lot more suggestions, including changing presidential immunity from prosecution, banning self-pardons and limiting outside funding for inaugurations. It’s all pretty relevant right now.

Read more here:
citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…