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Perilously close to the edge

Let’s say you don’t like what the Trump administration is doing, or you don’t like Trump. You express these views on Facebook, TikTok and Instagram. You take a two-week vacation in France. When you try to return to the United States, U.S. immigration agents arrest you. They detain you in solitary confinement. They don’t let you contact your family. They don’t let you contact a lawyer. Then they send you to a brutal prison in El Salvador. But wait! You scream over and over. You can’t do this! I’m an American citizen! Your screams have no effect. Sound far-fetched? ...

Concern about national injunctions

On Monday, the Trump administration struck back at the legal-industrial complex’s war against MAGA. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department filed an emergency request asking the Supreme Court to take a stand on the “epidemic” of national injunctions that leftist district court judges are using to halt the Trump agenda. Trump’s lawyers said on Monday that only the Supreme Court can stop this “power grab.” The success of Trump’s presidency could hinge on whether the court will come down hard on this cozy collusion between anti-Trump litigants and injunction-happy ...

End war on small business partnerships

President Donald Trump has promised to create millions of new high-paying jobs. One easy first step to doing that is to repeal Biden regulations on America’s 4 million business partnerships (sometimes known as S corporations) that are prolific job creators. The latest estimates find 10 million Americans employed by these business partnerships, with $800 billion paid in worker salaries and benefits. As an example of the importance of this business model, “90 percent of Microsoft’s commercial revenue flows directly through our partner ecosystem,” according to a post on the ...

Trump toys with Supreme Court

President Trump downplayed Chief Justice John Roberts’s statement Tuesday in defense of the judiciary, but the President had better be careful. The White House strategy of bashing judges and jamming the Supreme Court could backfire in spectacular fashion. Guessing the thinking at the High Court is a fraught exercise. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned about the Chief Justice in his nearly two decades at the Court it’s that he hates being dragged into political fights. He prizes the reputation of the Court as a neutral arbiter of the law and protector of the ...

Education then versus now

How did I, my parents, grandparents and ancestors going back to the founding of the nation manage to get a decent education before the federal Department of Education (DOE) was created by Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress? Quite well, thank you. I went to a public school where the basics were taught - math, reading, U.S. history and science without a political agenda - and I graduated from college without help from the government. I paid back my small (by today’s standards) student loan. Tuition was cheaper then because government had not become involved in education to the ...

Bernie Sanders: good show, dicey politics

Bernie Sanders can draw a crowd. No doubt about it. And as Democrats continue to feel their way out of the Trumpian swamps, you can’t blame them for wanting to vent in large groups. Sanders has amassed them in Nebraska, Iowa and Arizona and has said things ripe for the political moment. Addressing President Donald Trump: “I’m not going to allow you and your friend Mr. Musk and the other billionaires to wreak havoc on the working families of this country.” Democrats can enjoy these words passionately spoken and in plain English, but they take real risks in making this ...