Despite the tweets and Comey maelstrom, some good things are happening in the executive branch. An important example is Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s Monday order ending a program to treat legal settlements like political appropriations.

The misuse of settlement slush funds was one of the Obama Administration’s worst practices, which it used to end run Congress’s constitutional spending power. After the GOP took the House and tried to cut spending for liberal interest groups, the Obama Justice Department began to force...