Dont shun those who vote differently, when judges contravene Congress and other commentary

“Increasingly, I hear Democrats describing [Trump] voters as not simply bad people but evil,” but as “a lifelong leftist type” living on a farm in mostly conservative Greene County, New York, “I keep finding reasons to see my political adversaries as human,” muses Larissa Phillips at The Free Press.“Farming entails emergencies, and so often my neighbors were there to help.

It’s hard to care where someone stands on politics when they race to your house to save a dying lamb.” “It worries me” that “Americans who’ve moved since the last election seem to have overwhelmingly chosen neighborhoods” with more people who “share their politics.” This means “fewer Americans will be exposed to the kindness, the sheer humanity, of people who don’t share their political beliefs.”“Judges should not be making law, but should be interpreting and applying the law as it was written,” fumes Reason’s Billy Binion.A new case involving “a family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI” and then denied the right to sue would “serve as a particularly loud reminder of that.” The FBI “would not find who they came for, because the suspect didn’t live there.” Yet when the victim, Curtrina Martin, sued, “the 11th Circuit gave immunity” to “the leader of the SWAT raid” and denied her the right to sue, citing “the Federal Tort Claims Act.” That’s a switch because, as federal lawmakers have argued, that law was specifically meant to help victims like Martin; the 11th Circuit countermanded it — contravening Congress’ intent.Christiane Amanpour’s reference to “Israeli occupation forces” — a “derogatory term used by anti-Israel partisans to refer to the Israeli military” — caught the attention of Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

Amanpour flung the smear during an interview with a “Palestinian and Israeli filmmaking team who oppose the demolition” of Palestinian structures on an IDF training plot, telling them, �...