The Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection under the laws. Democrats in California are pushing legislation that would eviscerate both and set a terrifying precedent that threatens to send any project opposed by liberals—toll roads, housing developments, even private schools—into a purgatory of regulation. For nearly two decades, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a rear guard of environmentalists have been trying to block the Los Angeles-based company Cadiz from developing a groundwater basin in the Mojave Desert....

Source: Wall Street Journal May 31, 2019 22:18 UTC