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Criminologist: DSA Out To Ax the Justice System
“Motivated by ignorance” and “a hatred of American institutions,” the DSA goals “to dismantle the American criminal-justice system” as an instrument of “class warfare” now supplemented by a “racial or ethnic overlay,” marvels Barry Latzer at City Journal. Yet the socialists “overlook the poverty” of most crime victims, in addition to the “disproportionate” proportion of black and Latino victims. And leftists’ favored “restorative justice” options may go for minor infractions or as a “supplement to incarceration,” however not critical crimes. Socialists additionally oppose “e-carceration” corresponding to ankle monitoring, “though they don’t say why.” In actuality, the left “doesn’t really care about such reforms,” as a result of its actual objective is “to destroy the system — and not just the criminal justice system.”
Libertarian: Court Packing Looms
“President Joe Biden faced enormous pressure from progressive activists” wanting him “to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by packing it with a supermajority” of liberals, however “Biden consistently resisted such pressure” all through his time period, notes Reason’s Damon Root, siding with liberals corresponding to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg feared and Stephen Breyer who thought court-packing would destroy the high court’s credibility. Absent principled justices, like Ginsburg and Breyer, “who would be willing to speak out against,” what occurs when subsequent “Democrats regain control of Congress and the White House?” While “court packing 2.0 may not be inevitable,” a “fundamental distrust of the Supreme Court only seems to be gaining steam” on the left.
Security beat: Stop the Cable-Cutters
Undersea fiber-optic cables carry virtually 95% of the world’s knowledge, a “vulnerability most Americans do not consider,” warns Jason Hsu at The Hill. Beijing retains damaging cables linking Taiwan and its islands to the world as a type of “China’s continued gray-zone warfare” aiming to “undercut Taiwanese sovereignty”; Russia is accused of comparable crimes in the Baltic Sea. With US allies wanting -10 to see if our leaders will match their “rhetoric about ‘critical infrastructure,’ ” Congress should move the Strategic Subsea Cables Act to punish these wanting to “harm international communications.” Plus, as a “linchpin of a shared defense” America can lead its allies in “hardening this infrastructure and speeding up repairs.” It’s solely a matter of time earlier than dangerous guys cut the subsequent cable; “the only question is whether the United States will make them pay a price for it.”
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Conservative: France’s Antisemitism Crisis
Barbara Butch, a French Jewish artist, “was forced to abandon her performance during a music festival” as “100 pro-Palestine activists hurled abuse” at her Saturday, grumbles Gavin Mortimer at The Spectator. This, as a result of Butch signed onto a call “to address the rise in France of ‘renewed forms of anti-Semitism.’” The protestors’ purpose was to “subject artists” to the agenda of the far left La France Insoumise get together; current polls show 92% “of French Jews believed LFI had played a role in the recent rise of anti-Semitism.” Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France, has accused President Emmanuel Macron of turning a blind eye to the rampant anti-Semitism” as “not a day passes without Jews assaulted in the streets.” Mortimer provides: “No Jew is safe in Emmanuel Macron’s France.”
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China desk: Trump’s Test on Jimmy Lai
“Donald Trump put his reputation as a negotiator on the line with China last week” when he opted “not to renew an emergency order he issued in 2020 that imposed sanctions on nine officials from Hong Kong and the mainland,” contends The Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn. And “it isn’t clear Mr. Trump got anything in return” for this “huge concession to China.” Meanwhile, newspaperman Jimmy Lai, the “world’s most famous political prisoner,” stays imprisoned, regardless of Trump’s 2024 election-eve vow that he may simply get him freed. “Clearly that’s proving more difficult than Mr. Trump anticipated. So the question now isn’t only what happens to Jimmy Lai if he remains in prison. It’s also about the consequences for Mr. Trump.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
