Trump’s Convention Was ‘Clearly Illegal’

“The South Lawn speech was the final demolition of the boundaries between governance and campaigning in a week full of such eroding,” the New York Times reports.

Playbook: “It’s really shocking that the president used America’s monuments — Fort McHenry, the Washington Monument and the White House — for nakedly partisan political purposes. It’s clearly illegal.”

Jonathan Chait: Why Republicans can get away with violating laws Democrats have to obey.