THE SUPREME COURT WOULD PREFER NOT TO:  Alas, the Supreme Court declined today to review Metcalf v. United States.  The question of whether Congress can prohibit hate crimes by using its Thirteenth Amendment power to prohibit  slavery will thus go unresolved by the nation’s highest court.

(On the upside for today, I learned to shoot skeet and wasn’t nearly as bad at it as I thought I would be.)