Think More: Friday, July 24, 2026
Brandon Gill targets the ABA's accrediting power, Ways and Means subpoenas the Singham network, the DOJ sues Colorado, and more.
Lead · Conscience and the Credentialers
Brandon Gill Moves to Strip the ABA of Its Power to Accredit Law Schools
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Just the News he will pursue legislation ending the American Bar Association’s role as a law school accreditor, a day after questioning its president, Michelle Behnke, about the group’s diversity mandates. The association has begun rescinding those requirements under a Trump executive order. Behnke defended the concept anyway.
Conscience and the Credentialers
Four Orders of Catholic Sisters Sue New York Over Assisted-Suicide Referrals
Four orders of Catholic sisters, several affiliated health ministries, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre have asked a federal court to block New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act before it takes effect August 5. Becket argues the statute’s conscience clause still obliges objecting providers to counsel patients, assess their eligibility, and transfer them to willing prescribers.
The Party Sprints Left
South Carolina Goes First Again as Democrats Lock Iowa Out of 2028
The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to keep South Carolina first on the 2028 calendar, with Nevada, Michigan, and New Hampshire following and Iowa shut out. States that jump the line now risk a $270,000 fine and the loss of every delegate. The full committee ratifies in Austin next month.
Anchor Theory: The Left Drifts Because Nothing Pulls Back
Chris Bray | Tell Me How This Ends
Chris Bray argues the Democratic Party races leftward because no countervailing force holds it near the center. He sets the DSA program, which promises free housing, food, energy, and medicine, beside Republicans who answer socialism with federally funded home repairs. Political centering is the product of a contest, and the contest has collapsed into argument about Donald Trump.
Mamdani Concedes He Cannot Arrest Netanyahu, and Gets Credit for Trying
Charles Fain Lehman | City Journal
Charles Fain Lehman notes that New York’s mayor campaigned on arresting Benjamin Netanyahu, then admitted this week that he holds no such power. His followers counted the gesture a victory anyway. Lehman reads Gaza as a purity test for the party’s most activated voters, and symbolic politics as an escape from a budget gap Zohran Mamdani has not closed.
Follow the Money
Ways and Means Subpoenas Three Nonprofits Tied to Shanghai’s Neville Roy Singham
House Ways and Means Committee | waysandmeans.house.gov
Chairman Jason Smith issued subpoenas Friday to BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People’s Forum after the three tax-exempt groups spent months refusing the committee’s document requests. All three are tied to Neville Roy Singham, the Shanghai-based tech millionaire. The subpoenas demand communications with foreign principals and records of foreign gifts above $5,000.
An 88-Year-Old Michigan Woman Is Recorded as Making 14,696 Donations to Democrats
Robert Spencer relays a Michigan Enjoyer investigation into Elizabeth Waffle, an 88-year-old who owns no computer and whose ActBlue record shows 14,696 contributions totaling more than $150,000 over five years, including 47 to Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Waffle denies giving anything near that sum. ActBlue’s chief executive invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times before Congress.
Citizenship and Its Privileges
Justice Sues Colorado Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens, Its 14th Such Case
U.S. Department of Justice | justice.gov
The Justice Department sued Colorado on Thursday over statutes granting in-state tuition and scholarships to aliens regardless of lawful presence, arguing they conflict with the federal bar on education benefits withheld from citizens. It is the department’s 14th such suit. Four earlier cases, in Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, produced favorable orders against analogous laws.
New Jersey Registered Nearly 7,000 Noncitizens, and at Least 400 of Them Voted
The Examiner editors note that Governor Mikie Sherrill acknowledged Tuesday that at least 400 noncitizens have voted in New Jersey since 2023, after the state improperly registered nearly 7,000 between June 2023 and June 2024. Sherrill says the state is working to protect them from charges. The federal form asks applicants to attest citizenship, not to prove it.
The Build at Home, the War Abroad
Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell Superchip Is Now Mass-Produced in Fort Worth
Taiwan’s Wistron opened a $700 million, 324,000-square-foot plant in Fort Worth this week, the first American site to build and mass-produce Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip. The plant will later turn out the Vera Rubin line. It employs more than 500 workers, with 1,000 planned by year’s end, under Nvidia’s $500 billion domestic commitment.
Since the First Strikes in March, Opinion on the Iran War Has Not Moved
Napolitan News Service | napolitannews.org
Shortly after the opening attacks in early March, 40% of voters favored the strikes on Iran and 42% approved of the president’s handling of the conflict. This week the numbers are 40% and 41%. Support has moved only between 35% and 43% across five months, while disapproval has stayed above 50% since mid-March.
Voter opinion on the Iran war: Napolitan News Service, July 20-21
40%
Favor the attacks on Iran
41%
Approve his handling of it
61%
Peak opposition, April
