Jeff Sessions is bad for America

Adam Serwer of The Atlantic has delved in to the complicated case of Jeff Sessions, Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, He found: Sessions’s allies, and even Sessions himself, seem to have embellished key details, and to have inflated his actual role in the case, presenting him not merely as a cooperative U.S. attorney …

Churches want all up in your bathroom business

Leftover sends this, a story about a conservative legal advocacy group is challenging a new Massachusetts law that seeks to limit discrimination in that state. The federal lawsuit seeks to: stop the Commissioners of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD”) and the Massachusetts Attorney General from punishing four Massachusetts churches and their pastors because they wish to …

Tennessee Senators say no to making Bible official state book

After the Tennessee House voted to move that state closer to a theocracy, the state’s senators said no, and sent a bill that would accomplish this odd feat to committee — which is the same as killing the bill. Similar efforts have been tried in Louisiana, and Mississippi. What probably seemed like a good idea …