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Heritage Unveils 7 Policy Priorities for 2022 and Beyond - The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America today announced a set of strategic policy priorities that will form the roadmap for conservatives over the next three years.
Education: Half of all Americans (50%) say “parents of school-aged children should have a role in deciding what is taught in public schools,” while 50% also believe “we should have school choice programs which allow parents to use some of the money that government would spend to educate their child in traditional public school to send them to the public, private, or charter school of their choosing.” Heritage Expert: Jonathan Butcher
Rule of law: A majority of Americans (64%) disapprove of the job President Biden and Congress have done addressing illegal immigration and the crisis at the southern border and believe they should reinstate some previous Trump administration policies (61%). Heritage Experts: Lora Ries and Mike Howell
Election integrity: Most Americans support photo IDs to vote (79%) and oppose vote trafficking practices like ballot harvesting (66%). Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky
Spending and inflation: 80% of Republicans and a plurality of independents (43%) blame reckless government spending, rather than COVID, for historic inflation. Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith
China: Most Americans believe “China’s military expansion and aggressiveness is a direct threat to the national security of America” (74%) and that “China has been stealing American jobs and technology for decades and it’s time we stop depending on China” (87%). Heritage Experts: Dean Cheng and Olivia Enos
Big Tech: Most Americans (82%) believe “Big Tech companies have too much power over their platforms and have used it to expand their control of the public debate and shape our politics.” Heritage Expert: Kara Frederick
Protecting life: A majority of Americans support limits on abortion (56%) and banning taxpayer funding for abortions (65%). Heritage Expert: Melanie Israel
Biden’s transformation of federal judiciary in full swing - President Biden took office in January 2021 with clear instructions about undoing his predecessor’s impact on the federal judiciary. Weeks earlier, more than 70 liberal groups issued a statement urging Mr. Biden to appoint judges who would advance “the administration’s priorities” on a range of issues. Their demand became Mr. Biden’s plan and, while a lot of attention is focused on his first Supreme Court nominee, he already has made significant progress in pushing the judiciary in that more liberal, politicized direction. Heritage Expert: Thomas Jipping
The American Bar Association’s “Diversity” Agenda Endangers the Integrity of the Legal Profession - The American Bar Association’s new standard does not promote intellectual diversity, but instead focuses exclusively on legally questionable, surface-level diversity of admitting and hiring “underrepresented groups, particularly those related to race and ethnicity.” The American Council of Trustees and Alumni rightly observes that “in the world of higher education, diversity has come to mean a preference for a diversity of backgrounds, but not a diversity of views.” Through its proposed “diversity, equity, and inclusion” standard—combined with its other efforts to establish racial preferences across the entire profession—the ABA seeks to return the study and practice of law to an era in which Americans placed a shameful emphasis on skin color and race .Heritage Experts: Zack Smith and Sarah Parshall Perry