IT’S NOT MEANT TO HELP KIDS, IT’S MEANT TO PRODUCE MORE UNIONIZED PUBLIC EMPLOYEES TO VOTE DEMOCRAT: Federal Early Childhood Education, Care Doesn’t Benefit Kids. Here Are the Facts.

LITERALLY HITLER: Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality.

Good news, but this is NBC, so they just can’t help themselves in the subhead: “The administration is responding in part to a reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Trump’s top geopolitical foe.”

Trump still hates gays, you see. He’s only doing this to thwart “his” top foe.

Pathetic.

NEW YORK SUN: Our Constitutional Emergency:

In the constitutional confrontation over President Trump’s plan to use emergency powers to build a wall on our southern border, we’re keeping an eye out for the name of Jagdish Rai Chadha. He was the plaintiff in the case in which the Supreme Court read Congress the riot act for trying to interfere with a president’s emergency powers. The case echoes through the years.

At the moment, the President is being opposed by Speaker Pelosi, Senator Schumer, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, and every other Tom, Dick, and Harriet in the Democratic Party. Sixteen states have already gone to court. They’re complaining about what they call Mr. Trump’s “flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution.”

This turns out to be exactly the principle with which the Justices clobbered Congress in INS v. Chadha. In that case, decided in 1983, the president used emergency powers to permit Mr. Chadha, a stateless person who had overstayed a student visa, to remain at America. The House of Representatives turned around and “vetoed” the suspension.

When it got to the Supreme Court, the Justices would have none of it. Congress, the justices concluded, doesn’t get to veto what a president does. Feature the parchment. The veto, as a power, is granted in the Constitution to only the president. He gets to use it against Congress. Nowhere does it say that the Congress gets a veto against the President.

When it comes to dealing with a president, the House can impeach the muskrat, the Senate can try him, Congress can refuse to appropriate money, it can declare war, it can grant a trademark. It can repeal a law. Veto, though, no. In the case of Mr. Chadha’s deportation, moreover, it was just the House of Representatives, acting alone, that tried to veto the president’s emergency action.

This hangs out there today, when we have a Senate controlled by the GOP and the House by the Democrats. “One-house legislative vetoes are invalid because they should be considered an exercise of legislative power, which makes them subject to the bicameralism and presentment requirements in Article I of the Constitution,” is the way the Justia Web site summarizes the case.

The business about presentment means that that if Congress were trying to legislate around a presidential emergency action, the president would get to sign off on it, just like any other act by Congress. This is one of the checks and balances to which everyone is always bowing and scraping. It looks like a problem Congress could face as she seeks to foil President Trump in respect of the Wall.

Indeed.

JUST ANOTHER HATE-FILLED DAY IN DONALD TRUMP’S AMERICA: Elizabeth Warren Claims Two Men In Colonial Outfits Assaulted Her With Smallpox-Infested Blankets.

A FINE ROMANCE WITH SOME KILLING: German ISIS bride tells how she spent her wedding night in a ‘blood-stained torture chamber’ with her new terrorist husband after fleeing life as a Hells Angel.

VIDEO: 7-Year-Old Boy Raises $5K for Trump’s Wall, Gets Branded ‘Little Hitler.’ “He was selling hot chocolate.”

If you need to make your point by calling a 7-year-old kid Hitler, you’re a terrible person no one should ever listen to.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Socialists are Nothing More Than Parasites.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: You’re Allowed to Be Happy a Hate Crime Didn’t Happen.

“I’M NOT AFRAID OF ANY OF YOU BASTARDS:” Flashback: Knoxville’s Cas Walker on Parking Lot Thugs.

My favorite Cas Walker quote was from former Knoxville Mayor George Dempster (of Dempster Dumpster fame): “If I ordered a whole carload of sons-of-bitches and they just sent Cas, I’d sign for him.”

More here.

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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Recuses Self From Jussie Smollett Investigation.

YES: Let Children Get Bored Again: Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency.

HEH: Activists Vow John Wayne Will Never Work In Hollywood Again. “Many seemed confused about who Wayne actually was, with some assuming he may have been a relative of Batman, and others thinking that maybe he was in a Coen brothers movie or something.”

J.E. DYER: A Coup Is Dead. Now For The Counterintelligence Investigations We Really Need.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s gone with the wind.

SYNCHRONICITY: Shot: Covington Catholic Teen Sues The Washington Post for $250 Million.

Chaser: Clarence Thomas Just Joined Donald Trump’s Crusade to “Open Up” Libel Laws.

UPDATE: Here’s the Covington Teen’s complaint.

THE BIGOTRY THAT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FAKED: Store Clerk in Kansas Curses Out MAGA Hat-Wearing 14-Year-Old.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Spot And Prepare For A Recession. Actually, nobody can reliably spot one. But you can “prepare” by doing what you should be doing anyway: Keep your debt low, and your savings high, and have a backup plan for if you lose your job.

OUCH: Kamala Harris’ Dad Blasts Her for Jamaican Pot Joke.

Professor Donald Harris Kamala Harris’ Jamaican father, has vigorously dissociated himself from statements made on the New York Breakfast Club radio show earlier this week attributing her support for smoking marijuana to her Jamaican heritage. Professor Harris has issued a statement to jamaicaglobalonline.com in which he declares:

“My dear departed grandmothers(whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents , must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.”

Like I said, ouch.

IT TOOK TWO NIGERIANS TO DO A JOB AMERICANS JUST WON’T DO: The Frenzied Search for Racism: Elites bought Jussie Smollett’s story because it confirmed their cherished narrative about a hateful America.

DREAMS OF FUTURE PAST: The TWA Hotel Turns an Abandoned Airport Terminal Into a Midcentury Dream.

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BYRON YORK: Much talk that something is up with Mueller. Too bad nobody knows.

“ARE CORPORATIONS PEOPLE?” IS NOT THE RIGHT QUESTION: At SSRN, my review of Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights.

As the review details, the book has its pluses and minuses, but establishes a fact that many readers, especially on the left, will find surprising and counter-intuitive: when courts hold that corporations are “people” for constitutional purposes, they generally do so to limit corporate rights. In Citizens United and other cases in which corporations’ constitutional rights have been established, the Court is protecting the rights of the corporations’ human owners, not the corporation itself.

Bonus factoid: The supposedly “reactionary” pre-New Deal “Lochner Court” tried to limit corporations’ ability to assert constitutional rights, but the “liberal” New Deal Court, keen to broaden first amendment protections for corporate-owned newspapers, expanded them.

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