Alabama’s governor and speaker of the House sued the Alabama High School Athletic Association on Thursday in what should be a thoroughly hopeless attempt to force a private organization to change its bylaws.

The lawsuit is the latest pander in what has been a panderpalooza by Republican lawmakers for the last week or so over a recent AHSAA ruling. That ruling was not actually much of a shock – it simply reaffirmed what had been a long-standing rule in high school athletics in Alabama.

If you transfer into a private school and receive financial aid to do so, you are ineligible to compete for a year.

The necessity of the rule is not hard to figure out. Because private schools have no attendance districts, they are notoriously difficult to govern. A public school student transferring to an

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