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Stanford Prof slammed for mentioning Trump’s son during impeachment hearing

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Washington: The impeachment hearing against US President Donald Trump took an ugly turn when a professor of law from the prestigious Stanford University took the name of his minor son Barron during her testimony before a Congressional panel, drawing an angry reaction from First Lady Melania.
Pamela S Karlan made the remarks while explaining the president’s rights under the Constitution during the impeachment proceedings by House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
It all started in response to a question from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee from Democratic Party.
“Contrary to what President Trump has said, Article 2 does not give him the power to do anything he wants, and I’ll just give you one example that shows you the difference between him and a king, which is the Constitution says there can be no titles of nobility, so while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,” Karlan said while using the 13-year-old’s name in an analogy to emphasize the differences between kings and presidents. Her remarks drew laughter from the people present in the room. Republican Congresswoman Matt Gaetz from Florida confronted Karlan about her using the name of Barron during the hearing.
“When you invoke the president’s son’s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean,” she said.
“It makes you look like you’re attacking someone’s family, the minor child of the president of the United States,” Gaetz said. First Lady Melania also slammed Karlan for invoking her son during the impeachment hearing.
“A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics. Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it,” the First Lady said in a tweet. The First Lady was joined by the White House Press Secretary Stephani Grisham on Twitter. ‘Classless move by a Democratic ‘witness’. (PTI)

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