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Media watch: Covering for Court-Packing
“Politico’s Josh Gerstein illustrated precisely” this week how, if Democrats “try to pack the Supreme Court, the media would run cover for the enterprise,” flags National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke. Gerstein famous Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s advice to Americans to “defend the judicial system against salvos that jeopardize its independence,” however then cited solely President Trump’s assaults on the courtroom. Hah! Dems’ threats the previous week “to pack the United States Supreme Court, abolish the Virginia Supreme Court, and interfere with any other court that gets in their way” barely left room for every other information, however Gerstein “can’t — or he won’t — see it.” That he cited solely Trump’s criticism is “telling, but it’s also pretty alarming as a harbinger of things to come.”
Foreign desk: Trump Ordering a Cuba Libre?
As we close to May 20, “Cuba’s Independence Day — a historic event in which the U.S. played a pivotal role,” latest “writing on the wall seems to suggest that this date could also mark the beginning of the end of 67 years of communist rule in Cuba,” cheers Arturo McFields at The Hill. Team Trump has “declared that Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security” and has expanded “sanctions.” “Trump wants a free Havana, and he makes no secret of it,” leaving the dictatorship “in a state of panic.” Add sturdy discuss from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and it seems to be like Cuba’s “ready for its liberation day, and the U.S. seems to be ready to help.”
Eye on NYC: The Case for School Vouchers
“Great news for Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” broadcasts Jeff Yass in The Wall Street Journal; right here’s how “to solve your affordability crisis.” The metropolis “spends roughly $37 billion a year to educate about 850,000 children” —about “$42,000 per child, per year” — for outcomes which might be “a national shame.” Just give each mother $21,000 per yr “as a voucher for her child to attend whatever school she chooses,” and put the opposite $21,000 “in a real account” that over 13 years ought to generate $300,000 upon commencement. The money spent on the colleges ought to make “every mother of two” in NYC is “a millionaire.” Give “her the money so she can control her destiny.” The lecturers union isn’t inquisitive about “education” — “they just want power.”
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From the fitting: Spanberger’s Competence Crisis
“Endless media profiles describing her competence and pragmatic leadership” during the marketing campaign “overhyped” Virginia now-Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s “strikingly bipartisan tone” and her dedication to “lowering costs,” chortle The Washington Free Beacon’s editors. In workplace, she instantly joined the “nakedly unconstitutional, highly partisan, and shockingly incompetent” effort to gerrymander the state’s House districts. She campaigned saying she “had no plans to redistrict,” then claimed she needed to “save democracy” by “trampling the state constitution.” She was “counting” on the state’s courtroom “to cower” as soon as voters handed the referendum, nevertheless it “laughed” the Democrats “out of court.” Spanberger is a “cautionary tale” of each “new Democrat darling” promising to “save the Republic through sheer grit and ruthless competence.”
SCOTUS beat: Liberals’ Stalling Games
“Supreme Court liberals’ penchant for slow-walking major rulings isn’t simply political,” warns The Federalist’s M.D. Kittle, it has imperiled “the lives of the conservative majority.” Notably, the Democrat-appointed justices “delayed the release of the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling reversing Roe v. Wade” by stalling on finalizing their dissent; then the draft majority opinion leaked, setting off “a wave of leftist protests and a literal firestorm of pro-abortion-led violence” in a bid to stop the ultimate ruling. A “would-be assassin was breathtakingly close to competing his deadly errand at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home.” And they simply “slow-walked” the 6-3 Louisiana v. Callais ruling, “which effectively put an end to Democrats’ nakedly race-based gerrymandering” — a delay meaning “state legislatures won’t have time to redraw their maps,” which ups the possibilities “Democrats take back power.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
