Dem Witness On Presidential Power: Trump Can Name His Son “Barron” But He Can’t Make Him A Baron; Up

[PeteS in CA]

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/12/04/dem-witness-presidential-power-trump-can-name-son-barron-cant-make-baron/

Dem Witness On Presidential Power: Trump Can Name His Son “Barron” But He Can’t Make Him A Baron; Update: Karlan Apologizes

Isn’t the true offense of this line how corny it is despite the fact that law prof Pam Karlan obviously prepared it and practiced it in advance?

She used to be touted as a Supreme Court shortlister, for cripes sake. No doubt she’s using today’s hearing as a tryout in case a Democrat wins next year, even though she’s probably aged out of the pool of viable candidates by now. This is her A-material for a SCOTUS audition?

It’s a dig at the president that references his son, not a dig at his son, but it’s poor form either way since it personalizes what’s supposed to be a quasi-objective inquiry about constitutional law. If I were Nadler, I’d want my witnesses to come off as strictly by-the-book, almost algebraic — “the Founders said X, the law says Y, ergo this is an impeachable offense.” Name-checking Trump’s 13-year-old kid to put a cutesy bow on her point about absolute executive power makes Professor Resistance here look like she’s out for soundbites, not a serious clinical assessment of the legal issues implicated in the Ukraine matter.

Maybe Allahpundit's near-Never-Trumpism causes his comments to be wide of the big target here. To me the big target here is the hysterical Hate-Trump antagonism exposed by Karlan's smart-assery. Her judgment and testimony cannot be taken as other than hyper-partisan. It's a self-exposure that should have made even Nadlerroo and Schifftyroo cringe.

[PeteS in CA]

More on Karlan, https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/dishonest-witness-pam-karlan-latest-act-at-impeachment-circus/

Representative Adam Schiff's Impeachment Circus continued with his latest act — radical militant leftist law professor Pam Karlan. Not only is Karlan a radical militant leftist law professor, she is a dishonest one. You won't find a single mainstream outlet that is giddy over her shrill testimony touch on her false scholarship.

Karlan worked at the Justice Department during the Obama administration. Not much got done on her watch. Where she really excels, however, is lobbing false charges at conservatives or Republicans.

When I was an attorney at the Justice Department, I worked on a Voting Rights Act case that Karlan hated. Why? Because the victims of the racial discrimination were white. We proved our case and won, but that didn't matter to Karlan. She was still bitter that the Bush administration protected white people from racial discrimination against a black defendant election official.

She even peddled the nonsense in a published law review article. Karlan falsely wrote, “For five of the eight years of the Bush Administration, [they] brought no Voting Rights Act cases of its own except for one case protecting white voters.”
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This is demonstrably false; any visit to the DOJ website demonstrates this. Karlan says the Voting Section brought no cases to protect minorities under the Voting Rights Act in five of eight years -- let's look at the record: