Tuberville's military blockade is dangerous. End it now

One of the things that makes the United States Senate what some call “the world’s greatest deliberative body” is a rule structure that ensures even members of the minority party have a voice. That is generally to the good — unless one of those voices is ideologically obsessed with one topic to the point of holding the country hostage over it. That’s what Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has been doing for months now, by blocking hundreds of senior military promotions in protest of the Pentagon’s abortion access policy. But there were promising signs last week that that dam is near the breaking po...