Harvard’s Laurence Tribe Shreds Trump Over 2 Unconstitutional Efforts | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday invited former Harvard legislation professor Laurence Tribe to debate President Donald Trump’s battle on Iran and efforts to limit birthright citizenship, a bid the Supreme Court solid doubt on throughout arguments earlier within the day.

The “Last Word” host performed audio from the court docket session, throughout which Trump Solicitor General D. John Sauer claimed the 14th Amendment’s assure of citizenship to folks born within the U.S. has “implications” in our “new world” that the modification’s framers wouldn’t have meant.

Chief Justice John Roberts fired again, “Well, it’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”

“I think the main thing to focus on is the comment that you quoted from John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States,” Tribe advised O’Donnell. “And I was, I have to say, proud of him as a former student when he said, yes it is a new world, but it’s the same Constitution.”

He continued, “That’s a very fundamental point. This was a Constitution designed to endure for the ages. Just because there might be a different form of immigration problem today … doesn’t mean we throw the Constitution out.”

Tribe went on to argue that issues in the end aren’t that totally different at present, both.

The constitutional legislation scholar famous that, whereas privateness legal guidelines as soon as centered on bodily “snooping,” they now concern trendy surveillance applied sciences, and that the Constitution has endured as a result of it was born from the aspirations of the Declaration of Independence.

“And it has enormous evolving potential,” Tribe advised O’Donnell. “There are new problems, but it is the same Constitution. And we need to hold on to it, not trash it, not call it stupid. Recognize that it isn’t perfect — no human instrument is — but it will do the job.”

“And we really need to preserve and protect it, not trash it the way this president does almost every day,” he added. “And in fact, when we talked about the war on Iran, how stupid it was, how foolish, how ill thought through, I didn’t hear anybody mentioning: It’s also unconstitutional.”

Tribe concluded: “The power to make war, for good reason, is not put in the hands of one person, however bright or not so bright. It is given to the Congress of the United States. We mustn’t forget that.”

O’Donnell famous an essential challenge that was “left unsaid” throughout the Supreme Court arguments Wednesday: specifically, that if a president doesn’t like a constitutional provision, they will’t simply circumvent the Constitution by signing govt orders — a penchant of the Trump administration.

Watch the total “Last Word” dialog on MS NOW’s YouTube account.