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With Trump Ruling, Supreme Court Restores Voting Rights of Millions of Americans

In a much anticipated, historic opinion Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed Colorado’s highest court and restored former President Donald Trump to the ballot for the state’s presidential primary Tuesday.
By doing so, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the Colorado Supreme Court’s unconstitutional disenfranchisement of 4.5 million registered voters in Colorado, restoring their right to make their own decision on who should be president.
The Colorado court claimed that because Trump was guilty of “insurrection,” it could remove him from the ballot under Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
But all nine justices of the Supreme Court agreed in Monday’s decision that Colorado could not remove Trump from the ballot. As the opinion says, since “the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates,” state courts and state officials have no power to remove federal candidates from the ballot.

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Just Say No to the WTO

This week, the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) is taking place in Abu Dhabi. The informal dispute settlement reform talks have made some progress in a few areas, but the one area where there has been no progress is the now defunct Appellate Body (AB).
The WTO AB should die an ignominious death, and the U.S. should oppose any restoration.
AB judges have engaged in judicial activism by expanding the AB powers beyond the scope of the treaties to which that the U.S. had agreed.
This is an important issue because many of the AB’s decisions against the U.S. go right to the heart of American law and even social policy.
The WTO should return to a focus on negotiations between parties to a dispute as a basis for resolution, not unaccountable and biased appointees expanding their power through an internationalist version of judicial activism.

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Schools Buckle Under Migrant Strain

Public schools are buckling under the strain of unchecked migration, with last year's 146,000 child arrivals alone jacking up education costs by more than $2 billion nationwide.
The arrival of children — some unaccompanied, others with families — are straining school systems in the states where they end up.
In recent news, a New York school was closed so that migrants could sleep there, and some Texas classrooms have become so packed that they spilling into hallways.
In four key states — California, New York, Arizona, and Texas — the cost of educating only the unaccompanied children who were sent to sponsors in those states tallied up to nearly $750 million.
The US school crisis boils down to an administration unwilling to enforce the basic rule of law and secure America's borders.

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