“Go on from Trump-Biden Valubatter”
Stuart N. Brotman in Boston Herald
Large media organizations have gathered to urge Democrats and Republicans to commit themselves to having their prospective presidential elections, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, participate in several TV debates, says Stuart N. Brotman. But most Americans will be “locked in” one or the other in late summer. Debate performances are “unlikely to turn” many voters. Media organizations should devote their “huge resources” to “more valuable activities”, such as encouraging voter registration and early vote.
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” Donald Trump did this ‘: How to beat Maga on Border Security’
Jill Lawrence in Bulwark
It has “never been a better or more urgent moment” for President Joe Biden and his co -democrats to “grab the problem solver high ground on immigration and border security,” says Jill Lawrence. Immigration remains “people’s highest problems” in polls. The Democrats should “force Trump to own his naked political” sabotage of a two -party border agreement that he apparently feared would work and destroy his plans to campaign as the “Savior” that would free us from “Border Chaos.”
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“The United States had every right to force a Tiktok sales”
Tim Wu in the New York Times
The United States has “every right” to tell to sell TikTok to a new owner “that is not subject to the control of the Chinese state,” says Tim Wu. Threatening to ban the app, Beijing sends the announcement that democratic nations “take seriously” its “obvious and obvious” violations of internet freedom, which recently command Apple to “block downloads of Whatsapp, threads and signal within its limits.” Free countries “have played sucker for too long.”
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“Hello, Scotus – your hypocrisy shows”
Austin Sarat in the hill
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Donald Trump’s immunity case last week, and it was “not a good day for American democracy,” says Austin Sarat. The “conservative majority seemed ready to fight their own original interpretation method and to ignore the serious threat that former President Trump’s electoral decoration – and efforts to block the peaceful transmission of power – posed to our constitutional republic.” Let’s hope that the justice “comes to their senses” and rejects Trump’s basis for “outstanding” immunity.
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