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Wall Street Journal
17-07-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
A Sovereign-Wealth Lesson
In his op-ed 'A Sovereign-Wealth Fund to Keep America's Technological Edge' (July 16), Pat Gelsinger cites the sovereign wealth funds of Norway and Singapore as good examples. But these are relatively small and homogeneous states. It would be far more difficult for a large and heterogeneous country such as ours to coalesce and spend our tax dollars wisely, as there are so many competing interests. The track record here so far is instructive. One loses count of the billions in U.S. government grants and loans to failed businesses. Ari Weitzner
New York Times
30-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
It's About Power: The Supreme Court, the Judges and the President
To the Editor: Re 'Justices Put Limit on Judges' Power, in Win for Trump' (front page, June 28): The Supreme Court's majority has determined that the Trump administration may continue to enforce what I consider a patently unconstitutional executive order in those states that did not join a legal challenge to President Trump's disregard of birthright citizenship. Though some limitation on the use of so-called nationwide injunctions by district courts may be appropriate, the majority's broad prohibition on their use, even when an executive order openly defies a clear constitutional mandate and a host of legal precedents, is just another example of the court's continuing surrender to Mr. Trump's campaign to obliterate the rule of law and establish an authoritarian regime. Gerald HarrisNew YorkThe writer is a retired New York City Criminal Court judge. To the Editor: I have always found it strange that a local court could nullify a nationwide executive order, and I suspect that those who are not happy with the Supreme Court decision would change their minds if a local conservative judge nullified an order by a progressive Democratic president. In fact, I am absolutely certain of it, because it has happened in the past, and liberals were aghast. What we have here is a classic case of selective outrage. Ari WeitznerNew York To the Editor: When an executive order is so clearly unconstitutional, a nationwide injunction is the most efficient way to stop it. The Supreme Court's decision says in effect that potential victims just have to work harder, spend more resources and wait longer for relief. DOGE indeed. Ellen PolingLafayette, Calif. To the Editor: Re 'Legal Checks on President Fade Further' (news analysis, front page, June 29): This article gets it exactly right. President Trump has trampled congressional statutes, fired protected civil servants and withheld funds Congress lawfully appropriated — clear violations of democratic norms. Yet instead of holding him accountable, Congress cowers and the Supreme Court hands him immunity. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
