MORE ON THE TEXAS POLYGAMY CASE: “Instead of being judged on an individual basis – each parent considered separately from the rest of his or her community – the state is treating the sect as a whole. Kids are being removed on the basis of their cultural background, not because they are in immediate danger. . . . I’m sympathetic to what a sudden influx of more than 400 kids must do to an overburdened system but I’m more sympathetic to the children especially given that the kids shouldn’t have been removed in the first place, not without proof of immediate harm.”

As I noted before, this is looking more and more like a screw-up of the first order.