WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing male inmates who identify as ‘women’ to be housed in women’s prisons in California.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law Schools In Chicago And Cleveland Consider Removing Chief Justice John Marshall From Their Names.

The beauty for the Deans is that they can posture as woke — then sell the naming opportunity thus created to the highest bidder.

THE NEW ANTISEMITISM: Ocasio-Cortez withdraws from Rabin memorial event after backlash from “Palestinian activists.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Black bear euthanized after running around downtown Chattanooga on Saturday.

SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Barrett looks like she stepped out of central casting for ‘soccer mom.’ When she is confirmed, she will be the first married female Justice since 2010 (when RBG’s husband died) and the first female Justice with minor children. I think she has more appeal to married suburban white women than conventional wisdom believes.”

What’s more, the Democrats’ most influential constituencies will pretty much force them to crap all over her.

UPDATE:

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ROGER SIMON: Time To Dismantle the FBI.

Fox’s Sean Hannity—Lord love him—has long been in the forefront of the fight to expose the Trump-Russia probe which, we learn increasingly virtually every day, was even more immoral, seditious, and anti-American than we had imagined.

Most recently, it has been revealed the sub-source for the Steele Dossier—the guy Christopher Steele relied upon for his vile lies—had already been investigated by the FBI as, of all things, a Russian agent, making the Dossier itself likely deliberate Russian disinformation that was accepted by the FBI anyway because… well… by any means necessary. (The shameless liars at Mueller’s operation claimed the Russians favored Trump, which is ludicrous given this revelation plus the content of the Dossier.)

It’s amazing it took three years for us to learn this.

But Sean H. evidently made one, I regret to say serious, mistake, probably because he’s basically a nice guy from a law enforcement family. He insisted all along that the problems in the FBI were only at the top, the so-called “Seventh Floor,” the domain of Comey, Strzok, McCabe, and the others.

Unfortunately, no. Also just revealed after three years are 302s (near-contemporaneous notes made after an interview) and texts that show lower-ranking FBI agents too were aware of the malfeasances that were occurring in the early stages of the Michael Flynn case.

In fact these agents were so alarmed they were considering professional liability insurance lest they be sued for the dishonest—one could even say treasonous— activities in which they were being forced to participate.

Frankly, I never imagined a FBI agent could even buy such insurance. The implications are unpatriotic on their face. But live and learn.

It’s interesting too, given the nervous chatter among themselves, not one of these agents became a whistleblower. I guess you have to be a friend of Adam Schiff for that. Or prodded by him.

What this adds up to, of course, is that although the direction of Obamagate or Spygate (call it what you will) came from the top—the “Seventh Floor” and above—others down the food chain knew about it. They too were guilty, although less than their superiors. They were the cowardly soldiers who went along.

How many such people there were we don’t know and, needless to say, there still are plenty of good men and women in the FBI, but it’s clear the organization has been so corrupted it needs to be dismantled—or reformed so entirely it might as well be dismantled.

Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, is about as far from the man to accomplish this as you could conjure. A Deep State apparatchik par excellence he has had difficulty going so far as to acknowledge the existence of Antifa. (He finally did). He preferred the canard of saying the real danger was white supremacists. Apparently, he doesn’t get out much. Most likely he will be gone very shortly if Trump is reelected.

A new national law enforcement agency should be built from the ground up with its headquarters far from Washington. I would like to think some version of this is on the agenda for Trump II.

But what if Biden wins?

Well, we know whose side the FBI is on.

OPEN THREAD: Have fun!

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So either they expect to lose and he’s a Bob Dole-style sacrificial candidate, or they have some other trick up their sleeve. How many of you think they’re okay with losing?

ROGER KIMBALL: The Left is going to find Amy Coney Barrett a tough nut to attack. She is smart, pleasant, and competent. Her personal history is an open book of service and commitment.

PROGRESS: Space Force OKs used SpaceX rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launches.

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Related: Trump Supporters Are Having All The Fun. “Biden supporters aren’t having fun because they don’t exist. If they existed, he would have won in Iowa and New Hampshire instead of finishing fourth. Oh, there will be people who vote for Biden. Millions of them. But they are voting against President Donald John Trump, not for anyone. They have no candidate, and that is not fun because they have no team really. So in their anger, they tear up cities, they tear up campaign signs, and they tear up their own cars.”

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WELL, IT’S HIS CORE COMPETENCE: Andrew Cuomo Has A New Plan To Kill New Yorkers.

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A LEFTY COLUMNIST WRITES: Amy Barrett: If Democrats attack her over ‘People of Praise’ membership, they’ll regret it.

Related, from a Notre Dame Law colleague: I’ve known Amy Coney Barrett for over 20 years. Her intellect and heart are unrivaled.

I DO WANT WILLETT TO BE THE NEXT PICK: A 2018 Cover of the National Law Journal Has Aged Well: It predicted Judges Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Willett on the Supreme Court.

IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS. NYT: Maybe a little anti-Catholicism is a good thing when it comes to Barrett. To which Ed Morrissey responds:

Ahem. [Elizabeth Bruenig of the Times] seems unaware that Catholics are hardly alone in any of these issues. The most significant Supreme Court case on ministerial exceptions for church institutions was Hosanna Tabor, a 9-0 decision on behalf of a Lutheran school, not a Catholic school, and also on the basis of the First Amendment. Likewise, the Supreme Court and lower courts have decided against the HHS contraception mandate on behalf of non-Catholic churches as well as private business owners prior to their latest ruling on Little Sisters of the Poor. Hobby Lobby involved evangelical business owners, not Catholics. Masterpiece Cakeshop didn’t involve Catholics, either. Bruenig also glosses over the core issue in Espinoza too, which was Montana’s Blaine amendment — an amendment that sprang from direct, explicit anti-Catholicism in the 19th century, and which exists in 37 state constitutions.

In short, Bruenig accidentally demonstrates an animus, if not a bigotry, that goes beyond Catholicism. It extends to all Christians by her own use of examples, even if Bruenig seems unaware of it, and truly to all faith. She sees the Lockean formula as one that keeps faith out of the public square altogether[.]

At PJM, Tyler O’Neil writes that Barrett Gave a Perfect Response to Anti-Religious Bigotry:

“All people, of course– well, we hope, most people– have deeply held moral convictions, whether or not they come from faith. People who have no faith, people who are not religious, have deeply held moral convictions,” Barrett noted. “And it’s just as important for those people to be sure– I just spent time talking about the job of a judge being to set aside moral convictions, personal moral convictions, and personal preferences, and follow the law. That’s a challenge for those of faith and for those who have no faith.”

“So I think the public should be absolutely concerned about whether a nominee for judicial office will be willing and able to set aside personal preferences, be they moral, be they political, whatever convictions they are,” Barrett explained. “The public should be concerned about whether a nominee can set those aside in favor of following the law.”

“But that’s not a challenge just for religious people. I mean, that’s a challenge for everyone. And so I think it’s a dangerous road to go down to say that only religious people would not be able to separate out moral convictions from their duty,” she said.

Obviously, that’s a belief too far for the Gray Lady.

(Classical reference in headline.)

LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: “In the video below, filmed in Hollywood, a Prius driver is stopped by a mob of Antifa/BLM criminals. They try to haul him out of his car, but he gets away. They pursue him in multiple vehicles, and pickup cuts him off. Again the criminals try to assault him, and again he saves his life by driving away. The video ends with the victim being arrested and handcuffed by the police.”

ANTICAPITALIST IBRAM X. KENDI, SPONSORED BY TWITTER CEO, ACCUSES AMY CONEY BARRETT OF ‘COLONIALISM’ FOR ADOPTING FROM HAITI:

Others quickly supported Kendi’s racist smear. Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a left-wing historian, added context to Kendi’s claim to perpetuate the idea that parents who adopt non-white children are somehow racist because of their ancestry.

“Many authoritarians seized children of color for adoption by White Christians,” Ben-Ghiat wrote. “Pinochet’s regime did this with indigenous kids and Nazis took Aryan looking Poles for German families. Trump takes migrant kids for adoption by Evangelicals.”

Jonathan Chait, a writer for New York Magazine, also came to Kendi’s defense, writing that Kendi is simply being misunderstood.

You can see Ben-Ghiat’s since-deleted tweet in this roundup by NewsBusters’ Curtis Houck, who notes that Kendi is also employed by CBS as contributor:

NOBODY WILL MISS THEM: Some Senate Democrats Consider Boycotting SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing.

My prediction: They won’t be able to stay away from the cameras.

BREAKING: Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Replace RBG on Supreme Court.