A rare moment of good constitutional-law news comes to us, from all places, California. No, this does not involve the state’s lieutenant governor rushing to follow Colorado’s lead in issuing a judicial bill of attainder on Donald Trump. As our friends at Twitchy noted late yesterday, Eleni Kounalakis tried instructing Twitter on what the Constitution says without bothering to actually read it first:
The Lieutenant Governor of the largest state in the country says that according to the Constitution, the president must be 40 years old. Her name is Eleni Kounalakis and appar,ently no one ever taught her how to read. https://t.co/ebhSVEqDaI
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 20, 2023
Kounalakis had to issue a correction after getting an avalanche of ridicule over her error, but constitutional ignorance seems to be a systemic problem in California. In the wake of…
