The Emoluments Clause is contained in Article I, Section 9, Clause eight of the Constitution.
Category: Law and Politics
The 25th Amendment Explained
There has been a lot of talk about the 25th Amendment to the Constitution as a method for removing the president.
Mandatory Minimum Sentences Explained
On June 19, 1986, basketball star Len Bias died from what was rumored to have been smoking crack.
Prison Populations by Country
The below information comes from the University of London’s Institute for Criminal Policy Research’s World Prison Brief. The World Prison Brief’s data regarding worldwide incarceration is the most comprehensive and cited data I could find.
Capping Medicaid
Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and state governments. The federal contribution is determined by the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP).
Poverty in America
The formula used to determine whether someone is living in poverty was developed By the Johnson administration in the early 1960s.
Health Insurance and Tax Credits
Currently, someone earning between 100 and 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Lebvel (FPL) qualifies for a tax credit to offset the cost of health insurance.
Medicaid Expansion Explained
Let’s start with the most important fact–millions of Americans have health insurance because of Medicaid expansion.
Caps on Health Insurance
Before passage of Obamacare, many Americans were subject to annual and/or lifetime caps on the amount of money their insurer would pay for their coverage; for example, if your insurance plan had a lifetime cap of a million dollars, the insurance company would stop paying your bills once they reached a million dollars.
Taxes in Obamacare
The IRS has produced a page on the tax provisions in Obamacare.