Jan. 3, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the election shows no signs of wrapping up. Fred Lucas reports. Contrary to conventional wisdom, politics-driven redistricting is preferable to the alternative, Jarrett Stepman argues. The Supreme Court ought to take on an overreaching bureaucracy, Elizabeth Slattery writes. Plus: Emilie Kao and Zachary Jones on what Canada teaches us about protecting religious freedom, and Walter Williams on the toll of government intervention in the economy.
Alberta's Child and Family Services bars a Christian couple from adopting a child because their religious views about sexuality were incompatible with "the official position of the Alberta government."
Special counsel Robert Mueller "is operating like the king of the Justice Department. There is no check on him whatsoever," says Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton.
Former President Barack Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, has begun beating the drum, calling for the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering, or, if that fails, passage of legislation to somehow make the system free from partisanship.
A series of Supreme Court decisions is allowing officials in administrative agencies—rather than judges—to have the final say in interpreting statutes and rules.
Legislation would mandate that community colleges and public universities provide women with abortion pills for up to 10 weeks of pregnancy so they don't face the "burden" of traveling to obtain an abortion.
The most often-stated cause of the Great Depression is the stock market crash of October 1929. Little is further from the truth. The Great Depression was caused by a massive government failure.
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