If Ted Cruz can't abide fancy private schools that inculcate respect for racial and other differences, why does he send his two daughters to one?

Also, the conservative judiciary's plot to destroy the regulatory state.

A still from Rushmore (1998), based on director Wes Anderson’s experiences at St. John’s, the Houston school Ted Cruz’s daughters now attend.

So much for the old school tie. On Tuesday Ted Cruz attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson, with whom he attended Harvard Law School, for being on the board of Georgetown Day School. It’s part of the GOP payback strategy. The Associated Press published a piece in October 2020 about a private Christian academy on whose board Amy Comey Barrett sat while it effectively barred admission to the children of gay parents and discouraged gay teachers from applying for jobs. To the Republican mind, this is just like Jackson sitting on the board of a private secular school that inculcates an ethic of diversity and inclusion. Never mind that Ted Cruz sends his two daughters to St. John’s School, the elite prep school that inspired Wes Anderson to make Rushmore, which inculcates the exact same ethic. My latest New Republic piece is about that.

Earlier this week, I wrote about plans the conservative judiciary has to shut down the regulatory state, and urged the Biden administration to take the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s advice and move regulations as fast as it can while it can. (Unfortunately, that isn’t very fast.)