JUSTICE ALITO’S CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR AMERICA: Look what’s happened on the religious freedom front since his November address to The Federalist Society. It’s the gift that really could keep on giving year-round.

NOTE TO THE DESPONDENT: Yes, the Supremes blew it on the Texas case. But, just as the seeds for the first American Revolution were planted from a hundred church pulpits during the Great Awakening (See this from Ellis Sandoz), maybe Alito has watered the seeds of a new rebellion.