Why David Weiss must go and other commentary

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“If a special counsel must be inflicted, David Weiss is uniquely unfit for the job,” roars The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn. The US attorney “was publicly humiliated” by the “implosion of the plea deal” that favored Hunter Biden; he also let the statute of limitations lapse on major offenses from 2014 and 2015. Attorney General Merrick Garland picked him despite rules requiring special counsels be from outside government, and Weiss’ “conflict of interest” is even more “glaring” since he can’t probe obstruction by his own team. “The most charitable interpretation” of Weiss’ role in any obstruction is that he “was a decent guy” who “ran into political interference.” Yet the “honorable response” then would be to resign, which “would still be his most honorable course.”

“Here in New York, parents and the public find themselves, again, preparing for yet another school year without knowing the outcome of the last,” fumes the Empire Center’s Emily D’Vertola. “Many states’ testing windows conclude by April or May,” so scores can be “available before the start of the following year,” but the State Education Department’s “outdated assessment framework, inconsistent and unreliable reporting procedures” and “overall mismanagement of resources” have yielded late release of students’ results on state assessments “for the second year in a row.” So parents and taxpayers “do not get to see . . . how their students and schools stack up to others around the state, nor the condition of their district, before making decisions for the following year.”

Dem governors are begging “people to move out of red states and into their dying states,” notes the Washington Examiner’s Zachary Faria. Michigan targeted ads to six booming southern states, bragging of being on the “right side of history” with pro-abortion laws. But “trying to challenge these states and lobby for people to move out is equivalent to a featherweight boxer trying to call out heavyweights for a fight.” New York City and California have also targeted Florida residents. “This is the trend into which Democratic cities and states are falling as their terrible governance scares off their own populations while GOP-run states prosper.” “People vote with their feet,” and “they want states that . . . won’t tax and regulate them out of their jobs, lifestyles, or the American dream.”

“Mixing politics and banking is a risky exercise,” warns Samuel Gregg at City Journal. Witness the decision by “NatWest-owned Coutts private bank to close the account of one of Britain’s most well-known political figures, Nigel Farage.” Documents show Farage’s politics “played a significant role in the decision to de-bank him.” While “it’s no secret that progressive social views are considered de rigueur throughout much of the banking industry,” it’s “imprudent for any bank to let itself be seen as regarding entire swathes of the British population as extremists.” Banks should “generate quality financial services” and deliver profit to their owners, not serve as “mere auxiliaries of activism.” “Bankers should stop pandering to progressives” and promote “the importance of what banks do qua banks.”

At The Hill, Maj. Brian Goodman, USSF, takes on “a significant understanding gap” between “the public we serve” and the service, which helps “explain why I am much more likely to be solicited for my opinion about extraterrestrial UFOs than national defense.” With satellite communications increasingly central to US war-planning, Guardians (“the name given our personnel”) look for ways to “defend our forces from an enemy’s space-enabled power — for example, jamming GPS aided munitions” and eliminating “one or more critical links in an enemy’s space-enabled attack kill-chain.” So “our work might be the difference between victory and defeat against a technologically advanced adversary” — though if the threat “is, in fact, extraterrestrial,” then “the Space Force may be of limited use.” — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board