The Bull Pen

I don’t want violent gang members coming to America. I don’t want campuses to let antisemitism flourish in the name of free speech. These are easy positions to adopt. But that’s exactly why the administration picked them. You can’t ignore our values, our laws, and our courts in some areas without destroying the foundation of those laws. Once you chip away enough of the foundation, there is no bottom. And you get this: “President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that his predecessor’s pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol are invalid because then-President Joe Biden didn’t use a real pen. ‘The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social online platform.” (The truth, of course, is that it’s sickening that Biden even had to issue these preemptive pardons in the first place. Sickening, but not unwarranted.)