The Editorial Board: Whose Permission?

A president cancels money Congress voted, a machine finds somebody else's keys, and a man walks out of a Utah prison after forty-one years with the state still at his back. On the cancelled spending the network says Congress should decide whether this money goes, and our hosts oppose pocket rescission. On the OpenAI agents the network backs the narrow court order barring them from other people's systems without permission. On Carter the network says Utah prosecutors should drop the case rather than retry him.