“Mr. President, what gives you the right to dictate the terms of elections in another sovereign nation?”

—apparently no American reporter dares ask him.

“It supports the scientists who fly into hurricanes, the meteorologists who develop new radar technology, and the physicists who envision and code new weather models. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.”

Was the judge supposed to telephone for the moving vans?

She ruled that "all actions flowing from Ms. Halligan's defective appointment” are invalid. There's nothing else to say.

Lindsey Halligan is not now and never was US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.