THE WEEK

So Jack and Sam packed the Rules Committee to grease the skids for that passel of legislation to Get America Moving Again. So Jack sent Sam his bill for a couple of billion dollars’ worth of federal spending for education. So the Rules Committee stopped it cold. So what now, Jack? Abolish the Congress?

On April 26 Attorney General Kennedy asked the U.S. District Court for Prince Edward County, Virginia, for permission to intervene as plaintiff in the school segregation case. Although the Justice Department had never before appeared as plaintiff in civil rights cases, the Attorney General and his lieutenants thought they had found a law which, properly construed, flashed them a green light. Not so, said U.S. District Judge Oren R. Lewis on June 14: “The granting of intervention will unduly delay and prejudice the adjudication of rights.” Oyez, oyez.

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So Jack and Sam packed the Rules Committee to grease the skids for that passel of legislation to Get America Moving Again. So Jack sent Sam his bill for a couple of billion dollars’ worth of federal spending for education. So the Rules Committee stopped it cold. So what now, Jack? Abolish the Congress?

On April 26 Attorney General Kennedy asked the U.S. District Court for Prince Edward County, Virginia, for permission to intervene as plaintiff in the school segregation case. Although the Justice Department had never before appeared as plaintiff in civil rights cases, the Attorney General and his lieutenants thought they had found a law which, properly construed, flashed them a green light. Not so, said U.S. District Judge Oren R. Lewis on June 14: “The granting of intervention will unduly delay and prejudice the adjudication of rights.” Oyez, oyez.