Plus: In 5 Charts, Factors Affecting China’s Military Future
August 30 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the left hopes to loosen the security of our elections. A scorecard from The Heritage Foundation ranks states with the weakest laws regulating elections, Fred Lucas reports. Is China all that militarily? Check out five charts from Brent Sadler and Jackson Clark. On the podcast, Doug Blair gets the lowdown on the s are set to vote on abortion; what science says about masks at school; and a New York Times columnist doesn’t understand religious freedom. Fifty-five years ago today, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice; he will serve on the high court for 24 years before retiring.
“Too many states aren’t willing to have basic voter ID laws in place, and some are making matters worse with automatic voter registration,” says Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky.
Unless we move quickly to address weaknesses, Chinese leaders might well calculate that they could outlast the U.S. in a long war—if they strike sooner rather than later.
In a recent essay in The New York Times, former Times reporter and columnist Linda Greenhouse accuses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of weaponizing religious liberty.
Jacobson, a professor at Cornell Law School, tracks which institutions teach critical race theory, and how deep the rot goes, in a database. It’s not pretty, he says.
