Plus: This Lawmaker Lost a Job Over Georgia's New Election Law. Here's His Story.
April 30 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where politicians on the left hope to take over the Supreme Court by adding justices. It’s a transparent move, our Jarrett Stepman writes. We’ve got an interview about school choice with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is under racist attacks by Biden supporters for his stirring response to the president. On the podcast, a Georgia lawmaker talks about the woke pressure on him because of election reform. Plus: Biden blows tens of billions on education; and farmers demand colorblind aid. On this date in 1927, the first federal prison for women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, mostly housing women convicted on drug and alcohol charges during Prohibition.
“We shouldn’t be looking at the color of someone’s skin and saying, ‘This person needs more help or less help based on the color of their skin,’” says Wisconsin farmer Christopher Baird.
“We have had to endure not just the political attacks from the left ... but now the personal attacks on our livelihoods,” says Georgia state Rep. Barry Fleming.
Instead of elevating students to standards that would help them achieve more in life, we lower those standards, sending a message that underachievement is OK.
