Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin trib.al/pUq2hrF

It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically. Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country. Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case. Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve. In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota. The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.

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Iranian woman, 23, is sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social media post that 'insulted the prophet' trib.al/D9JpwVn

Critics of affirmative action have long pointed out that it discriminates against Asian and White students. Sowell explains how the problem goes further: affirmative action also directly hurts the very minority groups it is intended to help. While teaching at Cornell, Sowell saw that half the Black students were on academic probation. Yet these were talented students: the average Black student at Cornell scored at the 75th percentile on the SAT and likely would have excelled at most colleges. The reason these Black students were struggling was that they were competing against the nation’s brightest students. The average liberal arts student at Cornell scored in the top 1% on the SAT. Sowell argues that affirmative action, by mismatching these talented Black students with schools, artificially turned them into failures.