The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump Administration’s appeal of a District Court injunction that blocked the U.S Postal Service from carrying out or enforcing Donald Trump’s March Executive Order that would have severely restricted the used of mailed ballots.

Trump desperately needs a distraction from his last distraction, the war with Iran.

What happened in the Seattle Public Schools stands as a cautionary tale of how good progressive intentions can go terribly wrong, and as a microcosm of how the national turn in some of the country’s most educated and economically successful blue jurisdictions over the last decade away from a focus on accountability and academic achievement in schools has turned into an extended exercise in self-sabotage.

Our national politics since 2000 have been marked by close elections, a closely divided Congress, bitter partisan battles, with neither party able to gain a sustainable majority of public support.

In Washington, D.C., politicians, too, are signaling a need for slowdown.

After he, by “the luck of the draw,” had won “the gay marriage case,” he joked that maybe a one-decade continuance might be appropriate to create an opportunity for “a consensus to emerge.”  Instead, he learned the case was on a fast track.