New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- WASHINGTON - Senator Alex Padilla announced Monday that he would introduce legislation making it illegal for a sitting president to sell or license faster access to his own public statements, a practice that currently has no statutory prohibition. The announcement came forty-eight hours after Truth Social went live with Truth API, a paid subscription service giving financial institutions real-time access to President Trump's posts before they appeared in the general public feed.

Padilla, a California Democrat, said the bill was planned for introduction Tuesday but offered no detail on its enforcement mechanism, penalty structure, or constitutional framework. What the legislation would address is a gap that opened whe...