The appeal comes from a teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy whose family says some courts have made it too hard to sue public schools that fail to make sure students get what they need to learn.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from Read’s defense team asking it to overturn two charges against her.

Tempting though it may be to think so, the best diagnosis isn’t that Trump is simply crazy or wants to be a dictator. His ...