Nobel Prize-winning hacker attack: US Supreme Court opposes extremism allegations and other comments

Conservative: Nobel Prize-winning hacker attack

Noah Rothman of the National Review marvels: Following the example of the 51 intelligence “experts” who trampled on the Post’s laptop revelations in 2020, comes a letter from 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists who “insist that Donald Trump’s proposed economic policies threaten to exacerbate inflation.” And “assured Americans that Joe Biden’s economic policy preferences are absolutely unassailable.” Huh? “He pumped unprecedented amounts of taxpayer money into the private sector at a time when there was already too much money chasing too few goods.” was not inflationary? And “these experts continue to claim that inflation should not even be a persistent concern for most voters.” The economists “rely on their credibility,” not on any “sound argument”: “This reckless, complacent impulse is why American institutions across the board are suffering from a credibility crisis.”

Libertarian: SCOTUS defies Extremism Day

The “panic surrounding the current composition of the Supreme Court” has “reached a more dramatic climax than the most tortured Tchaikovsky symphony,” complains Reason’s Billy Binion. Yet despite all the claims that the “conservative majority is both extreme and radical,” the truth is that “the justices agree, much of the time.” That is, “of the 18 rulings issued between December and April this legislative session, 15 were unanimous.” And most of the “infamous 6-3 splits” in this legislative session “did not run along the usual party lines.” All the “fearmongering,” even “while the ground reality” shows the opposite, “reminds us how artificial this panic can be.”

From the left: We Freedom of expression must be reinstated

“Academic freedom” was once upheld by progressives “as a fundamental principle,” “but in recent years we have changed course and encouraged the suppression of conservative voices on our campuses. Now the same justifications” are “being used to silence us,” warns The Nation’s Tascha Shahriari-Parsa. In October, the editors of the Harvard Law Review blocked an article that concluded “that Israel is committing genocide” — in part because of an idea “that progressive students have popularized: that we must protect ourselves and each other from hurtful speech.” “Progressive students have expanded the meaning of student ‘safety’: from the absence of physical violence to the absence of emotional distress.” But “if we continue to silence speech that offends us,” there will be “nobody left to challenge the status quo of ideas.”

Spy surveillance: How James Clapper manipulates elections

“Two days before the Trump-Clinton presidential debate,” notes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations, then-Intelligence Director James Clapper, with the blessing of then-President Barack Obama, issued an “unprecedented intelligence alert” that “lent credence to what the Clinton camp was telling the media — that Trump was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin through a secret backroom channel to rig the election.” “In 2020, he was the lead signatory of the ‘intelligence’ statement discrediting the October New York Post bombshell that revealed emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop.” “In fact, the intelligence community colluded” first with the Clinton and then the Biden campaigns — and “Clapper’s well-timed pseudo-intelligence briefings in 2016 and 2020” crippled Trump’s presidency and “arguably prevented his reelection.”

From right: Joe’s student loan bait and switch

President Biden claimed the Supreme Court didn’t stop him last summer when it ruled against his “sweeping” $400 billion in student loan forgiveness while he quickly rolled out his similar $475 billion SAVE forgiveness plan, Wall Street Journal editors recall. But on Monday, federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama largely blocked that plan, too — one of them criticized it as “an enormous and transformative expansion of statutory powers without clear authorization from Congress.” The SAVE plan was “another cynical exercise in buying votes, and Biden officials had to know they were stretching the law. As a result, millions of borrowers who had counted on lower payments and forgiveness of their loans are in limbo. Aren’t young people tired of being used as pawns by this president?”

— Compiled by the editors of the Post