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Catching Our Eye

• After Pretti killing, JD Vance reportedly advocated for suspending constitutional rights in Minnesota. The New York Times reports, “Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right.”

In the case of the Insurrection Act, Vice President JD Vance pushed to invoke it just days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minnesota critical care nurse who was protesting the administration’s immigration policies.

The details of internal debates over how aggressive Mr. Trump should be in seeking to deport millions of immigrants and crack down on those protesting his policies are drawn from reporting for a forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” …

Mr. Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again. (There was no evidence that either Mr. Pretti or Ms. Good had been paid activists.)

• Cheating. The Columbus Dispatch’s Nora Igelnik reports, “Ohio moves to penalize companies selling homework and exams.”

Selling homework answers to Ohio students may soon carry a financial penalty.

A wide‑ranging Senate bill addressing truancy and school zoning also targets academic cheating and outlines consequences for businesses that help students cheat on anything from exams to theses for profit.

The bill also seeks to clarify school districts’ authority to maintain, sell or demolish vacant buildings.

• Data centers. In an opinion column, Thomas Suddes writes in Cleveland.com, “A data-centers tax break that ballooned from millions to billions.”

Ohioans are figuring out that huge, tax-subsidized data centers popping up in pastures like toadstools after a summer shower benefit Silicon Valley and Wall Street, not working Ohioans.

That, at a time when Ohio median household income ($80,520 in 2024) lags the national median ($83,720), according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, while gasoline and grocery prices skyrocket.

Ohio’s data-center tax break appears to have originated as a 2011 Senate amendment to Ohio’s 2011-13 state budget, passed in mid-2011 by a party-line vote – Republicans “yes,” Democrats, “no” – and signed by Republican then-Gov. John R. Kasich.