US First Lady Melania Trump has 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."
"I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president's son," she told the panel. "It was wrong of me to do that."
And when Karlan clashed with Republican congressman Matt Gaetz over her donations to Democratic politicians, Gaetz snapped that invoking Trump's son "does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean."
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