Vance leaves Harris in the dirt, Penn’s rude bribes and other comments

Beating the campus: Penn’s Dishonorable Bribe

“The University of Pennsylvania tried to make a deal” with law professor Amy Wax, sanctioning “to water” her “if she agreed to stop discussing – and criticizing – her treatment at the hands of the university. She refused,” reported Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon.

“The university took no action against cartoonists who depicted ‘Zionists’ drinking the blood of Gazans” or “against students and professors who celebrated the worst pogrom since the Shoah.” But it chastised Wax for saying that diversity officers “can’t be scholars if their lives depend on it.”

“It is rare for a university to sanction a professor who has been a professor and is all but unheard of if he engages in political speech. Penn made an exception for Wax” – “a blow to precedent for academic freedom.”

Libertarian: North Fork Eminent-Domain Outrage

If New York “can hide false claims of public use, property rights — and the Fifth Amendment — become meaningless,” Arif Panju argued.

Brothers Ben and Hank Brinkmann in 2017 “tried to build a hardware store on their own land in Southold, Long Island.”

The officials “tried various ways to block the plans of the brothers”; when that failed, “Southold took the Brinkmanns’ land using eminent domain,” which essentially “lied about ‘public use’ to disguise compliance with the Fifth Amendment.”

The city claims it needs “land for ‘passive use parks.’ It is an empty field. In other words, the common usage is false.

“Brinkmann v. Town of Southold now at the Supreme Court’s door”; judges may “hold the government accountable for lying” and ensure that “constitutional protections are meaningful.”

Conservatives: Climate Activists Infiltrate Courts

“Judicial bureaucrats help left-wing dark money groups exploit the judicial system to destroy America’s traditional energy companies,” flagged Sen. Ted Cruz on The Hill, a collaboration between the “Federal Justice Center (FJC), the federal agency responsible for research and education for federal judges and judicial staff” and the “leftist” Climate Justice Project, where court staff are seen “helping left-wing climate activists lobby and direct judges behind closed doors.”

The Environmental Law Institute “launches the Climate Justice Project to provide judges with ‘climate science education’ “and the law.

But “the CJP’s funding comes from the same source to withdraw climate change lawsuits”; partnership with the FJC is “contrary to the independence of the judiciary and the mission of the FJC. It must stop.”

Watch social media: Vance Leaves Harris in Dirt

If you haven’t noticed, Sen. JD Vance “is very online,” observes Steve Krakauer on The Hill – and that’s “good”: The GOP veep nominee “uses social media in a way that no American political figure has before,” for example earlier this month when he “responded to a brief comment about X about daycare” with a “point-by-point, 350-word policy dissertation.”

The talking heads considered it “really funny how JD Vance dropped his entire policy manifesto in a Twitter reply,” while “Kamala Harris couldn’t describe a single policy at this level of detail” in her interview.

And social media output under Harris’ name suggests she doesn’t know the “password to log into her account.”

Everything is useless and empty.” “Perhaps being Extremely Online isn’t such a bad thing – especially when compared to the emptiness of the opponent’s ticket.”

Energy table: Bullies for Wind Power

After the offshore wind blades broke, “Nantucket residents expressed concern about officials’ handling of damaged turbines and environmental hazards from large fiberglass blades falling into the ocean,” said Emmett Hare in the City Journal.

Environmental groups “downplayed the episode,” with the Sierra Club arguing that it would not “impact” the use of “offshore wind.” Complaining Nantucketers have been smeared as “tools of the fossil fuel industry.”

But it will take more than smears “to convince the people of New England and the coast of the country that fiberglass and foam washing up on the coast is no more than a conservative talking point.”

– Compiled by the Post Editorial Board