Reading Room Document

Application of Emoluments Clause to Part-Time Consultant for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

A part-time consultant for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission occupied a position of profit or trust under the United States such that he could not, consistent with the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, accept employment with a private domestic corporation to perform work on a contract with a foreign government. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/23836/download.

June 3, 1986