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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Another day, another market drop [1]
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Date: 2025-04-16
New York Times:
Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’ But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have. Harvard University is 140 years older than the United States, has an endowment greater than the G.D.P. of nearly 100 countries and has educated eight American presidents. So if an institution was going to stand up to the Trump administration’s war on academia, Harvard would be at the top of the list.
Someone has to fight. Let it be Harvard.
x “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber
https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd — Harvard University (@Harvard) April 14, 2025
New York Times:
‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang. Yet most of the men do not have criminal records in the United States or elsewhere in the region, beyond immigration offenses, a New York Times investigation has found. And very few of them appear to have any clear, documented links to the Venezuelan gang. As they were being expelled, the detainees repeatedly begged officials to explain why they were being deported, and where they were being taken, one of their lawyers told the courts. At no point, the lawyer said, did officers indicate that the men were being sent to El Salvador or that they were removed under the Alien Enemies Act. The Alien Enemies Act gives the U.S. government broad powers to detain people during times of war, but Supreme Court rulings make clear that detainees have a right to challenge the government, and are entitled to a hearing, before their removal. Last month, an appeals court judge criticized the lack of due process under the Trump administration. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act,” said Judge Patricia Millett.
x The gov't's arguments against returning Abrego Garcia should make your blood run cold.
The gov't claims if it can ship a person to a foreign jurisdiction, they're gone.
There's no limiting principle.
It can make these arguments for intentional renditions of U.S. citizens.
1/ pic.twitter.com/BlsxujLDPh — Patrick Jaicomo (@pjaicomo) April 14, 2025
Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice:
The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug. These lies are effective because they leverage anti-government sentiment and prejudice. They also work because opposition politicians struggle to recognize and call out fascist bad faith. If Democrats are going to defend Social Security, the social safety net, and even cancer research, though, we need to get accustomed to saying unequivocally that lies are lies, and comfortable recognizing them as a deliberate effort to confuse and demoralize people.
x Goldman Sachs also expecting zero economic growth for 2025.
Zero.
We were printing +3% real GDP at the end of 2024. pic.twitter.com/YZoNN2XvcC — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) April 15, 2025
Paul Krugman:
Democrats Shouldn’t Support Tariffs Don't get sucked in by Trump's revenge mania But shouldn’t we be trying to restore U.S. manufacturing? Let me make three points: 1. Trump’s tariffs will hurt, not help, manufacturing 2. If you want to promote manufacturing, you should use industrial policy, not tariffs 3. Good jobs don’t have to be in manufacturing, and manufacturing jobs aren’t necessarily good Trump’s tariffs will hurt U.S. manufacturing Trump’s tariffs will reduce, not increase, the number of manufacturing jobs in America, for two reasons.
POLITICO:
What the Polls in Canada Are Really Saying A top Canadian pollster explains how Trump completely upended the election. You were one of the first people to detect that the Conservatives’ popularity might be fading in January. What were your surveys telling you? And what did you see that others didn’t? We started seeing some movement at the beginning of this year. We had the Conservative Party with a 25-point lead, which is a massive lead in our system. At that point, we had the Liberals, who were the incumbent, at a historic, at least in the 21st century, low of 19 points, basically tied with the [more left-leaning New Democratic Party] at that point. Since then, we have seen a straight line movement — it’s been interrupted, plateaued a bit in the last few weeks, at this point it just can’t keep going up. But the 25-point lead was erased. Now, nobody else saw that, so I faced a lot of skepticism and criticism. Conservatives were unhappy to see a race that looked like they could just sip beer and cut the engines and cruise to a majority, and all of a sudden, I see this narrowing.
x “Whoever is elected the 48th president won’t be able to easily rebuild what Donald Trump is busy destroying. Countries can and will move on without the United States. Their firms will establish new supply chains and pursue other markets”
https://t.co/zBT4101eMr — Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) April 13, 2025
Bryan Anderson/Anderson Alerts:
Riggs, NC Dems seek court intervention to prevent state from wrongly tossing out votes of longtime residents A new complaint cites reporting from Anderson Alerts of voters who could soon have their vote removed from the tally of last year's Supreme Court race. Republican Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin is working to overcome an apparent 734-vote defeat to Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs. Meanwhile, Riggs filed a notice for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene. The complaint from the state Democratic Party appeared to call on U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers to prevent the State Board of Elections from removing the votes of of the 260 North Carolinians labeled as “never residents” and up to 5,509 military and overseas voters. Riggs’ appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals would address both of Griffin’s outstanding protests.
Cliff Schecter on Ken Paxton vs John Cornyn in a TX Senate primary:
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