It has been apparent since the congressional midterm elections last November that little or no legislation would escape Capitol Hill, there being an absolute breach between President Trump and the Democrats, who now control the House of Representatives. So what are politicians doing to kill time until the main attraction, by which I mean the 2020 election?

As we reported in last week’s magazine, Trump is busy on a complete and efficient retooling of the federal judiciary with textualist judges. The Democrats, meanwhile, are using their ascendancy in the House to harass the president and hobble his administration even more effectively than they did before they won their majority. The hope is to tarnish Trump sufficiently to beat him in the presidential campaign now surging ahead at full steam.