By james art 
It was a pretty good week with Donald Trump again as president of the United States. A series of executive orders, changes in politics, progress in Trump’s office and many others have given us many things to chew.
Last week, we have criticized and praised the use of pardon power by both Trump and his immediate predecessor. Joe Biden overdone his preventive pardons to his family and political allies, while Trump went too far in the overall pardon of rebels from January 6, including perpetrators of violence. Both presidents have created a bad precedent that future presidents will no doubt take advantage of opening the door to even more politically protected crime.
On the other hand, they both deserve the credit for the release of prisoners from the war with drugs. Biden softened the sentences of thousands of non -violent drug criminals while Trump released the operator on the Silk and Libertarian cause Ross Ulbricht. The drug war was an unconstitutional attack on personal freedom, grace for mass observation and mass imprisonment, and complete failure at the same time. Partial pardon and replacement is nice, but complete reform is still needed.
In this regard, Trump has canceled Biden’s administration’s proposal to ban cigarettes with menthol. The last thing the country needs is the expansion of the tobacco drug war. Meanwhile, Trump’s chosen Minister of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said he would direct the federal government to be more open to psychedelic drug therapies. The least interesting developments from President of the Republican Party.
Speaking of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump also made news by announcing the publication of federal files related to the Kennedy’s father and uncle’s murders, as well as Martin Luther King Jr.
“I decided that the disclosure of all the documents posted by the federal government relating to each of these killings is also of public interest,” the Trump order explains.
Many Americans, including RFK Jr., have long believed that there was a plot to kill President John F. Kennedy, while the King family members even got to the point that they would consider King James Earl Ray’s convict as a fool. We have constantly supported the release of Kennedy’s files, whether there was actually a deeper conspiracy. The American people deserved to know what the government was silent in one way or another.
On other fronts, Trump has also provided some food for people concerned about Cultural War issues, including the closure of federal programs of diversity, justice and inclusion.
On the last question, this editorial college has long criticized collectivism of all kinds, including fixation with identity policy over the last decade. This editorial board was one of the only newspaper colleges in the state that opposed California’s efforts to restore positive action, for example, and thus the cancellation of the Trump Dei programs does not bother us in the least. Governments must focus on doing things, not discriminate against or against people based on invariable characters, nor trade the identity policy where it is not. Americans are Americans with equal rights before the law. Point.
We will have a lot more to say on Trump’s orders about immigration and border. But we are not particularly impressed with what we have seen so far.
Crossing the borders has fallen significantly in the last year back to historical norms, so many of Trump’s actions are in response to a borderline crisis that no longer exists. In the meantime, his strike against birth law, in addition to being constitutionally dubious, reveals misrepresented prioritization. As Alex Noruastech of the CATO Institute notes, “the annulment of birth law citizenship not only contradicts the nearly 420-year legal precedent, but will also create practical difficulties for local Americans, regardless of their origin.”
Alas, for good and bad, this is just a small sample of everything that has happened in the last week.