Alabama could soon create something unprecedented in American legal history: a police department run by a church.

The inquiry revealed once again the need for real oversight of the judicial branch.

The past year has been a series of tumultuous news stories, from the massive migration crisis and war and terror those migrants are fleeing, to historic images of faraway Pluto, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting same-sex marriage, and widespread protests about continued inequality.

The Supreme Court’s deadlock on immigration suggests that the protest should have been in the Senate, not the House.

A little-known Supreme Court ruling makes it legal for the league to promote its men’s and women’s teams unequally.