In a fine essay on the Federalist yesterday, Senator Mike Lee offers “five steps to restore trust, transparency, and empowerment.” Among other things:

Republican leaders should embrace a more open-source strategy development model that includes everyone on the front end to avoid confusion, suspicion, and division on the back end. The last four years have repeatedly shown the folly of excluding anti-establishment conservatives from strategy formation—bills pulled from the floor, intra-Conference chaos, and back-biting in the press.

Consistent with this call for transparency, I hope very much that the Senate staffers waging their badly misguided stealth campaign to impose the judicial filibuster on the next Republican president will promptly present their arguments openly in writing.