The Week

• So there were no left-wing Puerto Rican transsexual terrorists in federal prison?

• Representative John Lewis (D., Ga.) announced that he would skip Donald Trump’s inauguration: “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president. . . . You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong.” Trump in return urged Lewis to “spend more time on fixing and helping his district,” which is in fact the primary duty of local authorities, not congressmen (federalism, and all that). The instinct to push back is entirely justified, however. You would think, from news reports, that Lewis’s first names are “Civil Rights Icon.” So he was, beaten on the voting-rights march in Selma. May he always be honored. But he has had a half-century career of partisan politics since then, in the arena with everyone else. Dwight Eisenhower’s heroic war record did not immunize him from criticism, nor did JFK’s. John Lewis deserves to be judged on the content of his characterizations.