First, for all the people wringing their hands that the Eastman memo meant the republic was done for:REVEALED: Trump memo lawyer's friends were worried about his grip on reality
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 2, 2021
https://t.co/F1HM2O2UoU
Even Eastman didn't really believe it.A person close to Mr. Pence…said that Mr. Eastman acknowledged that the vice president most likely did not have that power, at which point Mr. Pence turned to Mr. Trump and said, “Did you hear that, Mr. President?” https://t.co/GihE49Lqb6
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 2, 2021
"Soon, Mr. Eastman was meeting face to face at Mr. Trump's urging with the attorney general, William P. Barr, and telling him how Mr. Trump could unilaterally impose limits on birthright citizenship," the newspaper reported. "Then, after the November election, Mr. Eastman wrote the memo for which he is now best known, laying out steps that Vice President Mike Pence could take to keep Mr. Trump in power — measures Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have likened to a blueprint for a coup."
Birthright citizenship was the tacit understanding of the country, albeit without including children of slaves, hem-hem, until the 14th Amendment explicitly wrote it into the base law of the country, for everyone born here. Trump could no more impose limits on it than Congress can (the only limit is for diplomats and their children, but that limit was understood to be part of the principle of the concept when it was adopted here as a feature of the common law of England.), and he certainly couldn't do anything about citizenship, birthright or otherwise, unilaterally. Eastman was a clown long before he wrote his infamous memo, in other words; and his legal opinions were not worth shit.
If infatuation with power makes people this stupid this easily, we really need to reevaluate who the President surrounds himself with.
It says he was a respected conservative lawyer. I'd like to know what he did that earned him that "respect" though the "liberals" who endorsed Alito, all of them lawyer, law scholar and judge and "justice" associates of his led me to believe that respectability in that crowd is based on service to the wealthy, even among the "liberals." It was one of the key moments in my seeing through the pantomime that the law in such hands too frequently is.
ReplyDeletePretty much the same people who still think Scalia was a “legal genius.” Based mostly on the fact he kept telling them that was so.
DeleteThese things that pass knowledge I don’t understand.