06-04-2019

Seven years ago, as the Supreme Court considered a challenge to the Voting Rights Act, Justice Antonin Scalia said the quiet part loud.The 2006 near-unanimous renewal of the landmark civil-rights bill was "attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement," Scalia lectured then-Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli. "Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes."

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that Democrats should insist on special counsel Robert Mueller's appearance before Congress, even if it requires a subpoena."I think he ought to testify. He may want a subpoena, for all I know," Hoyer said during his weekly press briefing in his Capitol office. "He indicated that his report speaks for itself. Very frankly ... questioning is an important fact-finding pursuit."