by Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:
Democrat leaders like Senator Chuck Schumer message thinly veiled threats of violence to their (increasingly small) number of followers. They are responding in counterproductive ways like torching and defacing Tesla cars and trucks, vehicles most likely owned by Democrats who believe in the climate change fairy tale and want to reduce CO2 emissions. The logical response of Democrat owners is to blame and leave the party that provokes this nonsensical criminal behavior. Even if you are brainwashed enough to think Elon Musk, who opened up the internet for free speech, rescued astronauts Biden left parked in space for months, and is working free round the clock to reduce waste, fraud, and inefficiencies to prevent national bankruptcy, is an evil monster, why target Tesla owners? I suppose that’s too logical an argument for the vandals to grasp. The administration has now tagged such conduct domestic terrorism — which it is, as was the “summer of love” BLM vandalism for which there had been no real consequences for the perpetrators. Three people have been arrested and face sentences upon conviction of from 5-20 years depending on their actions.
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It’s not the only countermeasure the Trump team unleashed this week. Nor is the Administration the only force acting to bring consequences to the lawless Left.
ATTACKING ACADEMIC LAWLESSNESS
Sitting atop mountains of endowments and further enriched by billions of dollars in federal grants, contracts, and soaring, extravagant tuitions made possible by federal student loan funding, Columbia University nevertheless found out that it is not above countermeasures to rein them in. Our richest, once most prestigious colleges and universities have arrogated to themselves the right to ignore, if not promote, illegal discrimination against students and faculty, serve as Marxist, anti-American, anti-Israeli breeding grounds, and are at the forefront of denying women athletes the opportunities promise of Title IX. Columbia University which was, perhaps, the worst offender, was threatened with a $400 million cut in federal funds. This week it quickly capitulated and promised to do more than was even demanded of it by the Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services.
As Novi Zhukovsky details, it will put the far Left Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies departments under direct administrative supervision. It will enforce existing disciplinary policies and abolish the biased Judiciary Board, placing disciplinary processes instead in the Office of the President of the University. It will implement rules to prevent classroom disruptions and ban masked protesters. It will develop a plan to hold student groups which violate school rules accountable; adopt a formal definition of antisemitism, and empower internal law enforcement. In addition — though not ordered to do so — it pledges to adopt a policy of institutional neutrality and offer a free K-12 curriculum designed to foster open inquiry and deal with antisemitism. Perhaps more importantly, it plans to expand “intellectual diversity” among faculty — it will appoint new faculty “with joint positions in the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Departments of Economics, Political Science, and School for International and Public Affairs.”
I expect that this shift will not be confined to Columbia.
The Trump Administration pulled $175 million in funding from the University of Pennsylvania because of its policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s events. It threatened to pull funding from Universities in Maine for its policies on transgender athletes. Governor Janet Mills registered her unwillingness to change them, but this week Maine universities have agreed to comply with Trump’s Executive Order banning men from women’s sports. (It seems even insane academics aren’t insane enough to choose to go broke defending those policies.)
PUNISHING LAW FIRM MALFEASANCE
It’s no secret that because of the political inclination of its partners and major clients and the promise of substantial government contracts, several big law firms actively sued to halt Trump and his initiatives and sometimes, like Perkins Coie, participated in Democrat party actions to thwart him by seeding the Russian collusion hoax. Another big firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, this week acknowledged wrongdoing by a former partner, Mark Pomerantz, who actively engaged in the lawfare against Trump. It has pledged to provide $40 million in free pro bono work for causes of the president’s choosing and the White House stepped back from its Executive Order setting consequences for the firm. As for Perkins Coie, the president withdrew the firm’s security clearances and it has sued. The D.C. judge assigned to hear the case is Beryl Howell, formerly the Chief Judge of the District. This week the Department of Justice filed a detailed pleading in support of its motion seeking Howell’s recusal from the matter. It documents the judge’s open disdain for and hostility to the President and his supporters. (It’s a pity the J6 cases were not televised so more people could have seen when it really mattered the bias of the court, but if you read this pleading, you’ll have a good idea of how unbalanced this court has been. Here’s a representative sample:)
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