esquire.com – Tough couple of weeks for America’s Bilge Pump For Bad Ideas. The state got waxed good and proper twice by the Supreme Court, most recently on Monday. I would call that a crisis for both Governor Greg Abbott and recently-indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton as they spent millions of taxpayer dollars defending an anti-choice law founded in such egregious bad faith that even Anthony Kennedy noticed, but these are the people that Texas elects so there you are.

However, the Texas Supreme Court is going to have to explain itself to me. Because, if the AP is to be trusted—and why shouldn’t it be, anyway?—this strikes me as being a little nuts.