“It has nothing to do with racist birtherism,” Newsweek editors wrote.
Eastman’s op-ed generated widespread backlash, with many comparing it to the Obama “birther” conspiracy and criticizing Newsweek for running the op-ed: Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, called Eastman’s argument “worse than nonsense” and “racist birtherism redux.”
Nancy Cooper, Newsweek’s editor-in-chief, and Josh Hammer, opinion editor, stood by the decision to publish the piece, claiming in anThe op-ed, Cooper and Hammer argued, instead focuses on “a long-standing, somewhat arcane legal debate about the precise meaning of the phrase ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ in the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment” and does not question “Harris' place of birth or the legitimacy of an obviously valid birth certificate” as the birther conspiracy...
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period. Now, we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.” Months later, after Trump had won the presidency and occupied the White House, thethe president was continuing to privately question the authenticity of Obama’s birth certificate.
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