• pillars_in_the_trees@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There should be background checks for US presidents yes, but also for all congresspersons and Supreme Court Justices. All of their finances should be public information as a matter of course.

    This would enable the government to make anyone they don’t like criminals to keep them out of office.

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      11 months ago

      I didn’t suggest that it would keep them out of office, just that it would be released to the public. If that public information is enough to keep them out of office, then guess what? The government today already has the ability to do it. The biggest difference is that everybody would be subject to it.