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A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it. That's a worry for key ethics law experts. The comment from U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick came a week after President Donald Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla infomercial for Elon Musk's cars. Normally public officials endorsing products draws calls for investigations from the government's top ethics lawyer. But Trump has fired that person, along with other key ethics officials. Laments one former White House lawyer: "I don't know if people care."

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It’s been a rough spring/summer. A pandemic rages uncontrolled across our land. Too many have died while many survivors suffer life-long infir…