Lawmaking shouldn’t used for simple political point-scoring

Although elected officials swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, they sometimes prefer to shrug it off as somebody else’s problem.
That’s what happened in California in 2018, when the state Legislature passed Senate Bill 826, requiring publicly traded corporations headquartered in California to have a specific number of women on the board of directors. At the time, a report by the Assembly Judiciary Committee predicted that the law “would likely  be challenged on equal