By
now Second Daughter Tiffany Trump—fourth child of the second marriage of That
Guy in the Oval Office—is well into the first-year curriculum at Georgetown Law
School where she began her studies last September.
Among
other legal subjects, Tiffany is becoming familiar with:
—
How American governing by separation of powers applies to the operation of the
Executive Branch, the two Houses of Congress, and the Judiciary,
— The process by which federal laws are drafted, enacted, and thereafter interpreted, amended, regulated,
and enforced,
—
History of the Supreme Court and many of its seminal decisions, including a
variety of challenges to the exercise of power by the Executive Branch and the
various Executive Departments (generally, Cabinets such as the Department of
Health and Human Services),
—
Basic rights guaranteed by Constitutional Amendments including those enacted
during Reconstruction, especially Due Process of Law and Equal Protection Under
the Law,
—
The elements of a crime including obstruction of justice, collusion, and
conspiracy,
—
How to draft contracts that are fair and enforceable rather than
unconscionable, void, or voidable,
—
Fundamentals of federal income tax law and how to understand and apply sections
of the Internal Revenue Code,
—
Matrimonial law including the equities and enforceability of prenuptial
agreements such as the one her mother signed, and
—
The essentials of real estate transactions including land acquisition,
construction, licensing, and financing of real property such as casinos,
hotels, golf resorts, wineries, and condominiums.
Tiffany
will also be participating in “Moot Court,” during which she will be assigned
to write an appeal brief for a fictional jurisdiction with real legal
citations favoring a particular position, and then present the case with oral
argument before a panel of “judges” along with her classmates who will argue
the other side of the same case or either side of another case in favor of
either the Appellant (the party appealing) or the Appellee (the party
defending).
Although
law school Moot Court does not traditionally require the trial court skill of
taking the depositions of parties, the transcripts of such
depositions can be referenced in the documents being included in the Appendix
of the briefs, and if those depositions include lies, evasions, or
contradictions, the law school student “attorney” presenting the case must
refer to such matters if they are pertinent to the arguments on appeal.
These
as well as other matters may be a sore subject for our Tiffany.
By
now Ms. Trump is the only member of the immediate Trump family who has even a
glimmer of the recurring errors made by the Trump administration in just about everything
it tries to achieve as its woefully inept staff ignore the most fundamental
concepts of American jurisprudence. Our Girl at Georgetown is in the process of
learning why and how her father’s administration keeps losing its cases on
appeal.
In
the end, Tiffany will know more about the missteps of her father's faux
administration than any other member of the Trump clan (with the possible exception
of Daddy's big sister Aunt Maryanne Trump Barry, retired federal appeals judge).
Just
imagine Tiffany Trump’s chagrin during class when and if the errors of the
Trump administration, beginning with the pitifully drafted first immigration
ban as a purported executive order immediately after Trump was inaugurated, are
dissected by her peers in a classroom full of future attorneys.
