Reading archive 2023-05-05

The polite struggle to do something — anything — about Clarence Thomas: Democrats are figuring out what it actually looks like to hold the Supreme Court accountable for its justices

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’: Leonard Leo told GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill nonprofit, then use money to pay spouse of Supreme Court justice

Opinion  We now have a Biden Doctrine. It makes me nervous. - "As former treasury secretary and Post contributing columnist Lawrence H. Summers points out, protecting the 60,000 workers in the American steel industry sounds smart, but when you do it by raising the price of steel, the 6 million workers who use steel as an input in their goods all suffer."

Metro deals blow to fare-free bus plan in win for Bowser: Several D.C. Council members raised questions about the plan this week, days after the mayor organized support for the competing K Street Transitway project

Opinion  I was busted by the light police. They had a point.