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The largest story this month is, without question, Elon Musk releasing what’s been dubbed “The Twitter Files” which exposed collusion between Twitter and the Democrat-controlled government to silence and censor its critics.

Democrats, with help from feckless Republicans, have advanced the Orwellian-named Respect for Marriage Act. They’re trying to finish the job they began in the 1960s.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 5, 2022 Is that all? In reality, there’s little distinction: The Constitution contains no provision for mulligan presidential elections, so what Mr. Trump is talking about is impossible under the parchment written by the Founders. But if he doesn’t grasp why he’s being called the constitutional Terminator, he should reread what he…

By: Ro Khanna – wsj.com – December 5, 2022 Free speech is a foundational value of our democracy. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), which overturned a libel judgment that racist local officials had won in an Alabama court, Justice William Brennan Jr. wrote that “debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.” Brennan noted that…

The election integrity movement is about increasing voter turnout by increasing voters’ confidence in our electoral system.  

On Monday, the Justices heard oral arguments in a case centering on a web designer who has religious objections to making websites for same-sex couples.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 4, 2022 The first is that Mr. Musk would do the country a favor by releasing the documents all at once for everyone to inspect. So far he’s dribbled them out piecemeal through journalist Matt Taibbi’s Twitter feed, which makes it easier for the media to claim they can’t report on documents…

Iran is reportedly abolishing its morality police and may loosen requirements on wearing hijabs in public after a series of fiery protests.

Regardless of FTX’s collapse and SBF’s role as its CEO, the interview requests continue to come in from outlets like the New York Times.

Elon Musk hopes that by showing how Twitter worked to suppress information it will force mainstream media to be more committed to the truth.

by: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 2, 2022 Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who declined to make custom cakes for gay weddings, won at the Supreme Court in 2018, but that was a limited decision based on the animus of the state Civil Rights Commission. A factor that made a broader ruling complicated was whether Mr. Phillips’s cake…