George Will disagrees with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Mullin v. Doe. A slice:
Three days after Noem terminated TPS for Haitians and Syrians, she recommended “a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies” who “slaughter our heroes” and “suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars.” She refrained from echoing Trump’s assertion about kitten-cooking Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. This marks her as a MAGA moderate. JD Vance spread the pet-eating fiction because he said creating “stories” (his word) makes the media notice Americans’ suffering.
Surely justices are not required to ignore such rhetoric? And although thoughtful people disagree about whether, or how much, justices should consider the downstream consequences of their rulings, Kagan writes:
One of the Haitian plaintiffs, an Alzheimer’s researcher, has Type 1 diabetes, which can be easily treated in America but can be a “death sentence” in Haiti “given that country’s collapsed health-care infrastructure.” And a Syrian plaintiff will have to return with her 17-year-old daughter, who has lived here most of her life and “will have no future in Syria because she speaks little Arabic.”
Time and freshening breezes will cleanse Washington, dissipating the legacies of appointees like Noem, and of the president who chose them. The court’s mistaken ruling she provoked will be more lasting.
Also critical of Mamdani’s rent freeze is the Editorial Board of the Washington Post. A slice:
Rent controls also lead to the deterioration of quality by removing incentives and resources for landlords to maintain their properties.
It’s the same story wherever they’re tried. When St. Paul, Minnesota, announced a 3 percent annual cap on rent increases for most apartments in 2022, home building plummeted and rents actually increased faster than they did in Minneapolis, just across the Mississippi River.
The inverse is true. When Argentine President Javier Milei abolished long-standing rent controls, average inflation-adjusted rents fell by 40 percent within a year.
In New York, the controls that already exist keep the rental market in a chokehold. Thousands of apartments sit vacant in one of the highest-demand cities in the world because it’s not economical to rent them.
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