Jim Wright Makes It the Old-Fashioned Way

It is time for the Reagan Justice Department to mount an official investigation of growing corruption charges against Speaker of the House Jim Wright. The allegations against Wright have been mounting for months, and they are now echoed not only by partisan opponents but in establishment organs like the New York Times and Newsweek. But Wright still sits in the Speaker’s chair, confident that he has nothing to fear either from his colleagues who run the House ethics committee, or from a preoccupied and intimidated Reagan Administration.

The Administration, of course, fears that any Justice Department investigation of Wright would be denounced, by the Democrats and their numerous allies in the press, as a political act. In this the Democrats would be entirely correct. It would be a political act. Indeed, it is almost a political obligation.

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It is time for the Reagan Justice Department to mount an official investigation of growing corruption charges against Speaker of the House Jim Wright. The allegations against Wright have been mounting for months, and they are now echoed not only by partisan opponents but in establishment organs like the New York Times and Newsweek. But Wright still sits in the Speaker’s chair, confident that he has nothing to fear either from his colleagues who run the House ethics committee, or from a preoccupied and intimidated Reagan Administration.

The Administration, of course, fears that any Justice Department investigation of Wright would be denounced, by the Democrats and their numerous allies in the press, as a political act. In this the Democrats would be entirely correct. It would be a political act. Indeed, it is almost a political obligation.