President Obama’s unilateral renaming of Mount McKinley in Alaska has agitated the Ohio congressional delegation, and more than a few observers across party lines, largely because it was done without constitutional authority. To be sure, such niceties have not stopped this president in the past. But it will be interesting to see if Congress, in this latest instance, is content to let the powers of the executive branch expand—the expense of Congress.

It has also stimulated what we might call the bumptious left. Dana Milbank, writing in the news pages of the Washington Post, was quick to deride constitutional concerns by asserting that conservatives prefer the name of Mount McKinley to the aboriginal Mount Denali because William McKinley, the 24^th president of the United States, was a “white guy. And … the mountain is mostly white.”