Courts watch: When Judges Get Lawless
Despite repeated Supreme Court warnings against nationwide injunctions, obstinate district-court judges kept insisting upon their right to “micro-manage” the executive branch, fumes The Federalist’s Margo Cleveland. That created a “consequence-free environment” where “incorrigible” judges could serve “ideology” rather than real justice. Judges are doubling down on their unconstitutional demands, with one just last week entering “an order at odds with a Supreme Court decision only hours old.” At this point, “one must wonder what would happen if Trump decided he’s done following the lawless orders of the district courts.” Will these judges realize in time that “their own lawlessness is destroying the reputation of the courts”?
Hate beat: Pushing Jews To Quit
“When institutions make life uncomfortable for Jews, there is usually a simple reason for it: Those with influence within the institution want fewer Jews hanging around,” argues Commentary’s Seth Mandel. “The British Medical Association’s descent into an unhealthy fixation” on Palestinians and no “other oppressed minority” sure looks intended to drive out Jewish members. And “North Carolina’s Democratic Party executive committee” just “passed a resolution accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ and calling for the US to institute a defense embargo against the Jewish state,” culminating a prolonged push to make the party “even more hostile to Jewish members.” As “these ‘symbolic’ tactics proliferate,” realize they’re “not actually focused on Israel” but on finding “ways to make Jews feel uncomfortable.”
Foreign desk: Euro’s Green Debacle
“Europe’s latest meltdown over environmental policy” is “entertaining,” quips The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board. A new EU “rule would force companies to hire consultants to vet claims about environmental friendliness that firms slap on their packaging and marketing.” “An uproar kicked off last month” when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s spokesman “suggested she might drop the proposal.” Left-wingers in the European Parliament “are furious that she might abandon a green policy they like.” Her U-turn “could open the door to a no-confidence motion against her.” “Many European voters and most businesses probably would cheer, or at worst shrug, if Ms. von der Leyen dropped the green rule.” “Yet climate piety is so deeply ingrained in Europe’s political class that many struggle to read the electoral winds,” proving “this episode is European dysfunction in a nutshell.”
Democrat: Good Riddance to Randi Weingarten
Now that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has resigned from the Democratic National Committee, party leaders should “lock the door behind her as she makes her way out,” snarks Ben Austin at The Hill. “Weingarten was a key architect of the disastrous Biden-Harris pandemic school closures,” which erased “two decades of learning progress” for school children and also eliminated “Democrats’ massive electoral advantage” on the education issue. On school choice, she “gaslit” Democrats into opposing GOP initiatives as she tried “to make sure there is no choice of any kind.” “The party that invented public charter schools under Bill Clinton, then scaled them under Barack Obama, can’t even say ‘charter school.’ ” Democrats were once “the party of public education because they had the courage to fight for it.” “That courage is needed again.”
Economists: Things Are Great
Populists right and left have united in “doomsaying” over a “zero-sum grievance” culture, grumble Clifford S. Asness & Michael R. Strain at The Free Press. Both sides fret that “the game is rigged, the system is broken, everything is awful, and life was better decades ago.” In fact, “there has never been a better time to be alive than the present day.” Consider “the undeniable reality of today’s extreme broad-based prosperity and human flourishing” worldwide. “Wages for typical American workers have never been higher,” the rate of violent crime “has been cut in half” and “personal consumption is at a record level.” Beware: “The news business relies on outraging you.” While our country isn’t problem-free, we have it “pretty, pretty good.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
