There are so, so many reasons a Donald Trump victory over Kamala Harris is essential to restoring justice, ethics and a healthy democracy to this nation. It is a tragedy, or perhaps a cosmic joke, that none of those reasons have very much to do with the desirability of having Trump as President for four years. Never mind: what has been going on in the U.S. under the false justification of innate Leftist superiority is frightening, pernicious, and has to be stopped, which includes appropriate punishment.

One of those reasons the Axis must pay is its use of the legal system to harass, hobble, and if possible to jail Donald Trump. The conviction for—well, something—in the rigged Manhattan trial is certain to be overturned on so many grounds it’s like a 1L law school exam, but the case still has given Democrats the chance to describe Trump as “a convicted felon.” The dubious sexual assault case against him (which only proceeded because New York suspended the statute of limitations so Trump could be “got”) let them call the Republican Presidential nominee an “adjudicated rapist” after another politically motivated trial. Then we have the Fani Willis Follies in Georgia, where a prosecution against Trump was derailed because an incompetent and and corrupt D.A. used the case to get her lover on the Fulton County payroll. There are a couple more dominoes to fall in the disgusting “warfare” campaign against Trump, but as long as he loses in November Harry Reid will be high-fiving in Hell, because like Reid’s lie that Mitt Romney paid no taxes, the unethical strategy “worked.”

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Americans don’t appreciate the critical work on their behalf being done by groups like Turning Point USA, FIRE, and Prof. Jacobson’s Equal Protection Project, all of which would be termed “threats to democracy” under Joe Biden’s rhetoric.

This time it was Turning Point that stepped up. Riley Gaines, the gutsy and articulate former college swimmer who has become the de facto leader of opposition to allowing biological males compete as women against female athletes, was scheduled to speak at the University of New Mexico. The event was sponsored by Turning Point’s student organization on campus. The University told the students that they would have to employ extra security staff because Gaines would naturally be a catalyst for potential violence since the current mutation of student progressives like violence. (That wasn’t exactly what they said, but I’m acting like a journalist this morning.) TP-UNM told the University that it expected around 100 attendees and that the Gaines event would would last around three hours. It then received an email including an invoice that charged the students $10,202.50 to let a conservative speaker give her views on campus (well, again, that wasn’t exactly what the email said. It’s just what the email meant.) The charge covered the use of 33 security officers, or one for every three anticipated attendees, in the discretion of the university.

If your First Amendment alarm doesn’t sound after reading that, it might not have been installed correctly.

After the event, which went on without incident and minimal protesting, the final invoice that UNV delivered was about half the original amount. I’m guessing a UNV lawyer told UNV, “Mmmmm, I think $10,000 is too obviously a ‘Shut up, you bigoted conservatives!’ message. You might get away with $5,000.”

It didn’t. Turning Point sued, and yesterday, in Leadership Institute v. Stokes, a court struck down the UNV policy and its inflated, speech-constricting invoice. “Plaintiffs have shown a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their overbreadth claim because the security fee policy does not contain limiting language that includes “narrowly drawn, reasonable and definite standards[,]” and it does not include anything to prevent UNM administrators from exercising their discretion in a content-based manner….,” the court ruled.

Good.

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Pointer: The Volokh Conspiracy

Virginia is a so-called “purple state,” and even though Northern Virginia is Woke Central (Remember my neighbor who had a giant “Black Lives Matter” display in front of her house for almost three years?), there are plenty of Republican, conservatives and Trump supporters. And yet I have driven my car and walked Spuds all over the area, and I see only Harris-Walz signs. Why is that?

I think it is because Republicans have been intimidated. Professing fealty to the Leftist totalitarians who propped up a puppet President and covered up his disability, then appointed his successor while blathering on about how they were protecting Democracy, is considered proof of virtue. Expressing a contrary view risks being Dershowitzed and cancelled. I see the same phenomenon on Facebook. The vast, vast majority of my friends write the most fatuous, absurd pro-Harris propaganda imaginable, but the conservatives I know are posting pictures of their dogs and talk about movies and TV.

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Donald Trump handed the Trump-Hating Axis another stick to beat him with when he commented on recent polls showing American Jews supporting the Democrats by a 60%-40% margin. “I’ve said long and loud anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat,” Trump said. “If you want Israel to survive you need Donald J. Trump as the 47th president of the United States, it’s very simple.”

For this typically blunt observationTrump is being called, of all things, “anti-Semitic.” No, the correct word is “undiplomatic.” Another word is “correct.”

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Sarah B.’s COTD on the ethics quiz regarding the ethical amount of sympathy due a 15-year-old girl who probably crippled herself for life by trying “car surfing” is , as her commentary usually is, clear and in need of no introduction from me. So here it is….

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I don’t necessarily like blaming this on social media. I think that is putting the blame in the wrong place.

When I was in high school, a kid I had been in school with since first grade made a dumb choice. He killed two women by driving recklessly. At sixteen, he was tried as an adult and went to prison for two counts of vehicular manslaughter. I’m calling him Sam.

While no one can truly understand another’s reasoning, for those of us who knew him his whole life, the reasons for doing what he did were fairly obvious. Sam was one of two fatherless boys raised by their mom and grandma. The grandma, especially, did an okay job trying to raise him, putting him in the Catholic school, and holding to the old time values of respecting your teacher, ladies, etc. However, he never really managed to fit in with the other boys. In order to gain attention and acceptance, he willingly enacted whatever crazy idea the other boys conceived. Maybe it was bullying a girl. Maybe it was doing some silly prank. I was the target of a serious prank that was traced back to him when I was in fifth grade. He was in deep trouble and only avoided expulsion because Sister knew that this would never have come only from him. So when there was a rumor running around that if you drove down X road at Y mph, you could jump the main highway 3 miles east of town, it was logical that Sam would be pushed into trying it out. And try it out he did, with some of his fellows in the car. During third period, he T-boned two old ladies at the junction of X road and the highway at over 100 miles an hour.

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