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‘Emoluments’ are a bigger risk with Ritter as UConn board chairman

MAY 6, 2019 | by Chris Powell | JOURNAL INQUIRER (CONNECTICUT)

Connecticut's Democrats are as hostile as anyone to President Trump, with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal even leading a lawsuit accusing the president of violating the ‘emoluments’ clause of the Constitution. … The country never has had a president with so many potentially troublesome financial interests … But while the danger of conflict of interest and influence peddling in the federal government bothers Connecticut Democrats, they seem indifferent to the same danger in state government.

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