Supreme Court

The Birthright Citizenship Decision

How the Majority Rewrote the Fourteenth Amendment and Why Congress Must Now Act The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara ranks among the most consequential rulings of the Term. In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court struck down President Trump’s Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship for children of parents who are unlawfully present or only temporarily in the United States. The majority held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause demands automatic citizenship for virtually every child born on American soil, no matter their parents’ status. On the surface, the opinion gleams with scholarly polish: historical citations to…

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California’s Engineered Election Opacity

How the Democrat Machine Protects Itself and Why Election Day Must Mean Election Day It’s Sunday, June 7, five full days after Election Day on June 2, and LA County officials continue counting ballots in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Incumbent Karen Bass maintains a solid lead at roughly 34.8% and advances to the November runoff. The real contest for second place continues: Independent outsider Spencer Pratt still leads progressive Councilmember Nithya Raman by about 7,500 votes at ~78% counted. Yet each new batch of late mail and provisional ballots narrows that gap. Raman will almost certainly overtake Pratt in the…

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The Immigration Impact of Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II

How a Silent Supreme Court Ruling Is Already Reshaping America’s Trucking Industry Folks, let’s cut the polite nonsense. Last week, the Supreme Court dropped a unanimous 9-0 decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC that, on its face, looks like a dry statutory preemption case about freight brokers and negligent hiring. Justice Barrett’s opinion never once utters the words “immigration,” “illegal alien,” or “CDL fraud.” Yet within 72 hours, truck-stop videos from Ohio to Texas were showing brokers suddenly blocking carriers with “foreign drivers,” load boards lighting up with refusals, and the spot market shifting in real time. This is…

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A Once-in-a-Generation Constitutional Trifecta

Three Supreme Court Cases That Could Restore the Foundations of Self-Government In most Supreme Court terms, we see important cases that refine doctrine or settle discrete disputes. But every so often, perhaps once in a generation, the docket aligns on questions that strike at the structural pillars of how Americans choose their representatives, conduct their elections, and define membership in the polity. The 2025–2026 term appears poised to deliver exactly that kind of moment with three pending cases: Louisiana v. Callais, Watson v. RNC, and Trump v. Barbara. In essence, these cases ask: May race predominate in drawing congressional districts to…

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Day Means Day

The Supreme Court Just Reminded America What Election Day Actually Is The New York Times dropped its predictable hit piece this weekend, and it was textbook left-wing spin from start to finish. Headline screaming that the Supreme Court “Could Make It Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms.” Sub-head claiming the RNC wants to “toss ballots” and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of mostly Democratic votes. The whole piece painted President Trump as obsessed, the fraud concerns as “baseless,” and the 2020 “red mirage” as some innocent optical illusion. Make no mistake: that’s gaslighting, pure and simple. The Real Story from…

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The Chief Justice Herds the Cats

A Narrow Check on Emergency Tariffs I. The Core Ruling and Its Significance At its heart, Learning Resources v. Trump reaffirms a foundational principle: Under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, only Congress can lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises. The Framers, scarred by British monarchs’ arbitrary levies like the Stamp Act of 1765, deliberately vested this "power of the purse" in the legislative branch to prevent executive overreach. As James Madison warned in his speech delivered to the Virginia Ratifying Convention on June 6, 1788, diluting that authority risks "the gradual and silent encroachments of those in…

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It Was Breyer

The Dobbs Leak: A Preponderance of Evidence Points to Justice Stephen Breyer In the annals of Supreme Court scandals, few events have cast as long a shadow as the unprecedented leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. On May 2, 2022, Politico dropped the bombshell, publishing the full text of Alito's February 10 draft that would ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The fallout was immediate and seismic: protests erupted outside justices' homes, an assassination attempt targeted Justice Brett Kavanaugh, vandalism hit crisis pregnancy centers and…

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Trump is Wrong on Loan Forgiveness

Trump’s Expansion of Loan Forgiveness: An Originalist and Principled Critique The Trump administration’s October 2025 decision to process $400 billion in student debt cancellation for 30 million borrowers under the Higher Education Act (HEA) represents a significant act of executive overreach. By accelerating forgiveness through adjustments to income-driven repayment (IDR) plans-reducing timelines to as little as 10 years for many-the Department of Education has revived and broadened a framework originally developed under prior administrations. This move comes despite the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Biden v. Nebraska, which invalidated a comparable $430 billion plan for lacking explicit congressional authorization. As an…

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Restoring Hamiltonian Vigor

Implications of a Supreme Court Sweep Victory for Trump in Reviving the Pre-Watergate Presidency As the Supreme Court's 2025-26 term commences on Monday, October 6, 2025-less than two weeks from today-the timing could not be more urgent or consequential. With President Trump's aggressive executive actions already sparking a flurry of lower-court battles over firings, tariffs, and agency overhauls, the Court's docket arrives amid a high-stakes constitutional showdown. This term's focus on presidential authority promises to define the boundaries of executive power in real time, directly influencing ongoing policy battles and the administration's "drain the swamp" agenda. Rooted in Alexander Hamilton's timeless…

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Supreme Court Roundup: Originalism vs. Delegation in Landmark Cases

Supreme Court Roundup for the 2024-2025 Term The Supreme Court’s 2025 term grappled with fundamental questions of constitutional structure, delegation, and equality, as evidenced by three pivotal cases: FCC v. Consumers’ Research, Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., and Louisiana v. Callais. These cases probe the boundaries of Congress’s authority to delegate power, the executive’s appointment processes, and the tension between statutory mandates and constitutional protections. Each decision reflects a clash between modern judicial deference and strict originalist interpretations, emphasizing the Framers’ intent to safeguard democratic accountability and equal protection under the law. The analyses below explore the majority, concurring, and dissenting…

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