Jennifer Rubin (columnist)

Jennifer Rubin (born June 11, 1962) is an American political commentator who writes opinion columns for The Washington Post.

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• There is a reason that American Jews overwhelmingly voted against [Donald] Trump. These Americans voted their values, which include opposition to racism in all forms, a concern for the poor and the stranger, and a reverence for the rule of law.
  • "Trump shows us again what he thinks of Jews", The Washington Post (August 21, 2019)

• But Trump will not stop. He continues to single out Jewish lawmakers (e.g., House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) is "shifty") and his Republican Party routinely invokes Jewish billionaire George Soros as a maniacal force behind progressive Democrats.
  This is today's Republican Party: a cesspool of right-wing nationalist rhetoric, anti-Semitic tropes that find favor in certain circles (since America is a white, Christian nation in their eyes, Jews are "outsiders"), as well as anti-immigrant screeds and conspiracy theories. They overlap and reinforce one another.
  • "Trump’s anti-Semitic attacks on American Jews keep coming", The Washington Post (December 9, 2019)

• As we saw on Jan. 6, when elected leaders defy the law, they invite their followers to do the same. Chaos reigns, the courts become powerless, and mob rule (directed by an authoritarian leader) prevails. When [Donald] Trump lambastes judges and prosecutors and promises to "weaponize" the Justice Department, judges must maintain a zero-tolerance policy for officials' (and former officials') defiance of laws and court orders and ignore their claims of persecution. Judges should continue to denounce the contempt for courts, the law and truth Republicans routinely display.
  If courts do not mete out severe consequences for willful disregard of the law and attacks on the legitimacy of the courts, Trump will succeed in ripping up the foundation of our democracy. Judges simply must hold the line.
  • "Judges rebuke lawless MAGA Republicans. We need more of the same", The Washington Post (January 29, 2024).
  • The Supreme Court of the United States had ruled against the governor of Texas Greg Abbott's installation of "life-threatening razor wire across the Rio Grande". Abbott had announced he would not allow federal agents to move or cut the wire, thus violating his oath to uphold the American constitution, after Court had said he must do so.