NY Quarantine Violates Due Process Rights and Addresses Campus Antisemitism
From the right: Fixing Antisemitism on Campus
The changes that colleges need to make to address antisemitism on campus “aren’t top secret,” argues Commentary’s Seth Mandel. For starters, they must “choose between DEI and fighting anti-Semitism. You cannot have both.” Another change: “Schools should comb through and drop course-required extracurricular event attendance, and they should ensure that no DEI courses are required for graduation,” since “not all the antisemitic indoctrination is elective.” “Schools should shape their rules not around subjective experiences but around students’ ability to learn,” and “speech codes should be less oppressive” and “far more explicit in what they disallow.” “Let’s stop pretending the problems of higher education are too complex to dive right in and start fixing.”
Campus watch: Magill Ousted for Wrong Reason
Penn prez Liz Magill would’ve “more justly” lost her job “for being a bald-faced hypocrite” on “campus free expression,” thunders City Journal’s Heather Mac Donald. Consider: “Even now, Penn is weighing sanctions against law professor Amy Wax for her challenges to campus orthodoxy.” Meaning that Magill’s assertions of “loyalty to academic freedom” were “fantastically counterfactual.” Indeed, “even the presidents’ explanation for why they tolerate the pro-Hamas demonstrations is likely a lie. The real reason for their equivocation is fear of the campus Left.” And “absent a complete turnover of university personnel,” any “renewed authority to limit speech will be used overwhelmingly against conservatives.”
Eye on NY: Quarantine Without Due Process
In April 2022, attorney Bobbie Anne Cox filed suit against Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Department of Health over a new rule “which empowered public health officials to issue isolation and quarantine orders” to control COVID spread, notes Rebecca Sugar at the Washington Examiner. Cox’s lawsuit alleges that the “regulation renders New Yorkers guilty until proven innocent” as “no due process is granted prior to detainment.” A state judge “struck down the regulation on the grounds that it was unconstitutional” but an appeals court “reinstated” the reg, ruling that the plaintiffs had “no standing” despite being “state legislators charged with the duty of making state law.” In carrying on her fight “to safeguard New Yorkers,” Cox says: “We need people running our state who honor and appreciate our constitution.”
Conservative: Biden Is Blocking Ukraine Aid
Expect to “hear a lot about how Republicans are being stubborn” for not OK’ing Ukraine aid — but “almost nothing” about how “Democrats could get a deal” on it “this afternoon if they compromised” on Republican border-security proposals, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. “True enough”: Border security is a “top priority” for GOPers, and they want it funded and fixed alongside Ukraine aid. “But notice how rarely President Biden and congressional Democrats are portrayed as stubborn” for refusing to make the border-security changes Republicans seek. As progressive Democratic Sen. John Fetterman notes, you have roughly the population of Pittsburgh crossing the border every month. “Is it worth it to the Biden administration to lose the Ukraine war to avoid enacting” changes to address that problem?
Budget beat: Another Rough Month for Taxpayers
“Yet another spending negotiation in Washington is being devoted to priorities other than sticking to a budget, but politicians may not enjoy this luxury for much longer,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman, as “even a steep hike in federal revenues can’t keep pace with the skyrocketing cost of government in the Biden era.” The federal deficit totaled $383 billion in the first two months of the new fiscal year, $47 billion worse than a year ago. Payments for interest on the debt rose $60 billion (65%), mainly thanks to much higher interest rates, even as major-program costs (like those for Social Security and Medicare) are “also surging.” So “why is the United States running the reckless experiment of trying to ascertain exactly how much it can borrow before creditors balk or demand much higher rates?”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
