Fast Takes: DSA out to ax the justice system, court packing looms and more

Criminologist: DSA Out To Ax the Justice System“Motivated by ignorance” and “a hatred of American institutions,” the DSA aims “to dismantle the American criminal-justice system” as an instrument of “class warfare” now supplemented by a “racial or ethnic overlay,” marvels Barry Latzer at City Journal.Yet the socialists “overlook the poverty” of most crime victims, as well as the “disproportionate” percentage of black and Latino victims.

And leftists’ favored “restorative justice” solutions may work for minor infractions or as a “supplement to incarceration,” but not serious crimes.Socialists also oppose “e-carceration” such as ankle monitoring, “though they don’t say why.” In reality, the left “doesn’t really care about such reforms,” because its real goal is “to destroy the system — and not just the criminal justice system.”Libertarian: Court Packing Looms“President Joe Biden faced enormous pressure from progressive activists” wanting him “to expand the U.S.

Supreme Court by packing it with a supermajority” of liberals, but “Biden consistently resisted such pressure” throughout his term, notes Reason’s Damon Root, siding with liberals such as Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg feared and Stephen Breyer who thought court-packing would destroy the high court’s credibility.Absent principled justices, like Ginsburg and Breyer, “who would be willing to speak out against,” what happens when next “Democrats regain control of Congress and the White House?” While “court packing 2.0 may not be inevitable,” a “fundamental distrust of the Supreme Court only seems to be gaining steam” on the left.Security beat: Stop the Cable-CuttersUndersea fiber-optic cables carry almost 95% of the world’s data, a “vulnerability most Americans do not consider,” warns Jason Hsu at The Hill.

Beijing keeps damaging cables linking Taiwan and its islands to the world as a form of “China’s continued gr...