The executive branch turns antitrust law against television networks that paused coverage, an abuse of process that leaves no shelter when opponents hold the same tool.
The Justice Department's antitrust investigation into the television press pool uses competition law to punish editorial solidarity, turning a constitutional right into a federal crime.
In my father’s print shop in Bologna, the machines were loud, but the rules were quiet. You printed the manifesto, you printed the parish bulletin, and you printed the government decree.
The rule of law, I have found, rarely cares about whether a network has good intentions. It only cares if the procedure was followed, or more often, if it was circumvented by political will.
No verified historical parallel survived fact-checking for this story. What unfolded at the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner was not a speech; it…