Prefer objective news

*Regarding the article in the Gazette “Senator Schoesler keeping tabs on gun case” published April 18*

Much as I appreciate the Gazette, political opinion regularly creeps into what I would prefer to be objective news reporting and I cringe every time.

Here, the easy tell is gratuitously describing Mr. Johnston as “an unelected Supreme Court commissioner” (no parallel note that Bob Ferguson is Washington’s elected attorney general?). In fact, Johnston is THE Washington Supreme Court Commissioner, an important state office that he has upheld well for the past seven years. As the Court’s gatekeeper, his decision in this case was an easy one for the reasons AG Ferguson noted.

James Wolf

Charleston County, S.C.