There’s a truly excellent (thanks, Sal Gentile!) about all the things the Minnesota governor will do for you if elected vice president. It includes fixing your carburetor and putting a new chain on your lawn mower (read all the replies, I beseech you), and the upshot is that the former high school civics teacher and football coach is not just a menschy guy who will without even being asked but also a regular human who lives in the world. He doesn’t so much have an IVF “policy” as have an .

His daughter is in fact the reason he , in order to work more aggressively to prevent gun violence. Walz is not so much a creature of law and policy as a first responder. And, as put it when he was tapped Tuesday, Walz thus becomes the first candidate on a Democratic White House ticket ran for reelection in 1980 to not have attended law school.

The first nonlawyer in more than 40 years!* In a year in which the Democrats are on the ballot, that makes him perfectly positioned to talk about what the court has done to ordinary Americans and why it matters. In recent days alone, one sitting justice of the Supreme Court, in an interview with , cautioned President Joe Biden—kinda mobbishly—to “ ” about proposing reforms that include imposing enforceable ethics rules (something all other judges in America must abide by). Justice did this just as the reported on yet more undisclosed and unreported luxury travel by one of Gorsuch’s colleagues.

In a new letter from Democratic Sen. Ro.