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Constitutional Obscurity

12.03.08 -- 1:43PM
By David Kurtz

I thought the rumblings about Hillary being barred from serving as Secretary of State by the Constitution's Emoluments Clause was some half-baked right-wing theory on par with Obama's supposedly fake U.S. birth certificate. But apparently Congress is taking the matter seriously enough to reduce the Secretary of State's salary to get around the problem, and Nancy Pelosi supports the move.

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