Fight over Kamala Harris’ citizenship is a shameful distraction

Birtherism is back, and it’s as vacuous as ever. Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is an American citizen who is as eligible to serve as vice president or president as Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Joe Biden. This shouldn’t have to be said, but here we are.
In a recent op-ed for Newsweek, Chapman University law professor John Eastman wrote that “some” are “questioning” Harris’s eligibility to be president because of an arcane and fringe