It’s silly to ask if Ala. can defy feds

Why did USA Today on Feb. 12 ask the irrelevant editorial question, “Is Alabama judge right to defy federal ruling”? This (maybe) could have been relevant to antebellum Southern Democrats on the eve of the Civil War. But is it relevant for today’s Alabama GOP that has exceeded the procedural and policy radicalism of John C. Calhoun? B.J. PASCHAL,