The Southern Poverty Law Center has been secretly funding ‘informants’ and infiltrators in multiple white supremacist groups around the country, the DOJ charges. The scurrilous left-wing group had to pay for racism to meet demand. But the criminal case may not stick. The Times inadvertently illustrates that Barack Obama was the real norm-breaker in the showdown between the Supreme Court and the executive branch. What the Court does with a newly accepted case out of Colorado will shape the place of religion in American life for years to come. The Trump administration turns the page on the left’s illegal civil rights enforcement. He has the constitutional authority to do so. That doesn’t mean he should. How the Court is weathering the partisan storm. One of the nation’s brightest legal thinkers recalls his early days in court. Justice Antonin Scalia had a profound love for the Court and our country.

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