This editorial begins: “Senator Edward M. Kennedy has asked the Massachusetts Legislature to change state law to let the governor, currently a fellow Democrat, fill vacant Senate seats. Abandoning the current system, in which voters choose, would be undemocratic, even at the request of such a respected lawmaker.”
Ashby Jones: “It’s not every day that the writers of the New York Times’s daily editorials see eye-to-eye with the writers of the Wall Street Journal’s daily takes on the world.”