‘Child Deserves Privacy’: Melania Trump Defends Son as Professor Names Him in Impeachment Hearing
US First Lady Melania Trump on Wednesday publicly rebuked a scholar who used her 13-year-old son’s name to make a point during an impeachment hearing against the president.
Constitutional law professor Pamela Karlan invoked Barron Trump, the son of Donald and Melania Trump, to demonstrate how the Constitution imposes distinctions between a monarch’s power and that of a president.
“The constitution says there can be no titles of nobility,” Karlan told lawmakers during the House Judiciary Committee’s first hearing on impeachment, which featured four constitutional scholars.
“So while the president can name his son ‘Barron’, he can’t make him a baron.”
