Vance leaves Harris in the dirt, Penns dishonorable bribe and other commentary

“The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal” with law prof Amy Wax, offering “to water down” sanctions against her “if she agreed to stop discussing — and criticizing — her treatment at the hands of the university.She refused,” reports the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium.“The university took no action against a cartoonist who depicted ‘Zionists’ drinking the blood of Gazans” or “against students and professors who celebrated the worst pogrom since the Shoah.” But it punished Wax for saying that diversity officials “couldn’t be scholars if their life depended on it.”“It is rare for universities to sanction tenured professors and all but unheard of for them to do so over political speech.

Penn made an exception for Wax” — “a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom.”If New York “can hide behind false claims of public use, property rights — and the Fifth Amendment — become meaningless,” warns Arif Panju at Reason.Brothers Ben and Hank Brinkmann in 2017 “tried to build a hardware store on their own land in Southold, Long Island.”Officials “tried myriad ways to stifle the brothers’ plans”; when those failed, “Southold took the Brinkmanns’ land using eminent domain,” crucially “lying about the ‘public use’ to feign compliance with the Fifth Amendment.”The town claimed it needed “the land for a ‘passive use park.’ That’s an empty field.In other words, the public use was a sham.”“Brinkmann v.

Town of Southold is now at the Supreme Court’s door”; the justices may hold “the government accountable for its lies” and ensure “that constitutional protections mean something.”“Courthouse bureaucrats are helping a left-wing dark money group exploit the judicial system to destroy American traditional energy companies,” flags Sen.Ted Cruz at The Hill, of collaboration between the “Federal Judicial Center (FJC), the federal agency in charge of research and e...