Commentary Biden’s push for equity in government hits legal and political roadblocks. That was the headline of a front-page story in the New York Times recently. Note carefully the wording. We have two parts to the statement, a good one and a bad one. The good one is “push for equity in government.” Who could argue with that? Equity in government is merely fairness for the people, you see, the guarantee that the powers of the state are applied justly and evenly across the population. The bad part is those troublesome “legal and political roadblocks.” They sound like petty interferences with the fairness of the preceding part, procedural blockages that frustrate the moral good of equity. The story focuses on a small business owner in Madison, Wisconsin, a chocolatier who was told that a $50,000 payment from the federal government was coming in order to help her weather the COVID-19 crisis. The …