The Week

• The only Justice Department consultations Al Sharpton should be involved in concern state’s evidence.

• NBC New York reported that after nine months, the Justice Department investigation into those lane closings on the New Jersey approach to the George Washington Bridge has found no evidence that Governor Chris Christie ordered them, or even knew of them beforehand. Supplying context, NBC interviewed a former federal prosecutor, unconnected to the case, who said that in such investigations, “if you don’t have [evidence of wrongdoing] within nine months or so, you’re not likely to ever get it.” Was Christie’s exoneration given the same treatment as the initial story — that is, as if Martians had landed in New Jersey? No indeed. And since the federal investigation is ongoing (Christie is not the only person involved — or, in his case, not involved), and since the (Democrat-dominated) New Jersey assembly is conducting an investigation of its own, expect more dribs and drabs. Until, say, November 2016.