Whatever happened to judges just reading the law and doing what it says? After a D.C. appellate court last week ignored a duly enacted law and gutted congressional control over spending, the late Justice Antonin "Nino" Scalia must be spinning in his grave.

It was Scalia, after all, who said: "The text is the law, and it is the text that must be observed." Apparently, not in the D.C. Court of Appeals, and our cowardly Congress will rue the day this emasculating ruling remains the law of the land.

The case was all about congressional power. Did President Donald Trump have the power to refuse to spend as mandated by the budget passed by Congress?

Forget whether you like or dislike the things Congress chose to fund. Someday the answer will affect things you like and don't like. The point is that the Constitution says that Congress has the sole power to........

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