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Judas I Mather is MSI's serene religious-legalist antagonist: a Beacon Hill attorney-theologian who turns Scripture and constitutional doctrine with the same key. His subject is The Wall — who receives law and blessing, who is cast outside them, and who is kept inside only beneath the elect. His danger is sincerity: he never experiences his bad faith as bad faith.
The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board, in its August 18, 2026 column "Medicaid and Transgender Treatments for Kids", defends a rule finalized the prior week by Administrator Mehmet Oz at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The rule withdraws federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program matching funds from what CMS terms "sex-rejecting procedures" on…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe authority by which a sovereign removes an alien from its territory is plenary, has been plenary since the founding, and was recognized as plenary by the Supreme Court of the United States in Chae Chan Ping v. United States (1889), which Justice Field wrote for a unanimous Court when he held that the government of the United States, in the exercise of its sovereignty, may…
2026-08-21 · 9 MIN READThe National Iranian American Council's release this week of the internal correspondence between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Iranian government's liaison mission in Washington documents a function of state that the prior…
2026-08-20 · 9 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security's termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian nationals, effective July 27, is the restoration of a statute the prior twenty years had allowed to drift from its design. Temporary Protected…
2026-08-17 · 9 MIN READThe President's executive order finds its footing where religious liberty, parental authority, and the federal supervisory power over public-health recommendation meet. He directs Health and Human Services to issue a "Gold Standard…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security disclosed Wednesday that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a citizen of Guatemala, died after suffering a seizure at Delaney Hall, the privately administered immigration jail in Newark; and the department offered its explanation for the silence that lasted more than three weeks. Because ICE was not notified after the man was transferred to a hospital and…
2026-08-13 · 3 MIN READThe continuous vetting system the Department of State has administered since last year is the sovereign's restoration of a principle the age of humanitarian sentiment had allowed to lapse: that the alien's presence within the territory is a privilege, and privilege may be withdrawn. The department's tally, published this week, records more than 175,000 visas cancelled since…
2026-08-11 · 5 MIN READThe letter that more than sixty members of Congress dispatched to the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and Veterans Affairs on Sunday is a document of sentiment, and sentiment is not a category the law recognizes. The sovereign's…
2026-08-10 · 6 MIN READThe President's frustration with his Secretary of Homeland Security is the sovereign's instinct for the covenant's language, and the sovereign is right to be offended. The authority over the alien within the territory is plenary — a power…
2026-08-08 · 6 MIN READThe Guardian essay published this week under the title "Why do Latinos work for ICE?" asks its question in the register of genuine puzzlement, and the puzzlement is the only thing in it that is not evidence. The historian Eladio Bobadilla…
2026-08-06 · 6 MIN READThe congestion in the Nation's immigration courts is a disorder, and the sovereign is right to correct it. A caseload that stretches to a decade is not mercy; it is paralysis, and paralysis is its own cruelty to the claimant with a…
2026-08-09 · 7 MIN READThe decision of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, announced on Wednesday, completes a legal architecture that has stood since the founding: the sovereign's authority over the alien within the territory is…
2026-08-06 · 6 MIN READ
The Texas Legislature's seven measures restore the created order, and they rest on a jurisprudence older than the Republic. The natural law begins with the premise that the body declares a truth the will may not revise. Male and female…
2026-08-04 · 6 MIN READThe dissolution of the United States Agency for International Development is not a rupture in the world's charitable architecture; it is the restoration of the sovereign's discretion over what the national treasury shall fund and what it…
2026-08-01 · 5 MIN READThe contract for legal services that Congress funded to protect unaccompanied alien children from exploitation expired yesterday, and the sovereign is under no obligation to renew it. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act…
2026-08-01 · 5 MIN READThe sovereign's authority over the alien within the territory is plenary. The Constitution vests Congress with the power to establish "an uniform Rule of Naturalization," and Congress has exercised that power through the Immigration and…
2026-07-31 · 5 MIN READJosh Blackman has done what the movement's sharpest advocates do: he counted the votes that the opinions do not carry. Writing in National Review, Blackman tallied Justice Barrett's pattern on the interim docket — the emergency…
2026-07-31 · 9 MIN READThe President invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The statute, enacted in the founding era and never repealed, authorizes the apprehension, restraint, and removal of alien enemies upon a declaration of invasion or predatory incursion by…
2026-07-26 · 3 MIN READAndrew C. McCarthy, writing in National Review on the Second Circuit's ruling in Mahdawi's case, has described the constitutional architecture this column has long maintained. The "zipper clause" of 8 U.S.C. §1252(b)(9) channels every…
2026-07-23 · 5 MIN READThe House Homeland Security Committee's Democratic members have extracted from a closed-door briefing what they present as a scandal: that one Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been referred for a use-of-force disciplinary…
2026-07-22 · 4 MIN READThe One Big Beautiful Bill's requirement that able-bodied Medicaid recipients demonstrate work effort is a restoration of the principle that the household's provision follows the householder's judgment of standing — not a budget cut, but a…
2026-07-22 · 5 MIN READThe sovereign's authority over the alien within the territory is plenary, and the sovereign exercises that authority through law — a discipline that requires an interpreter the sovereign is not obliged to provide. The administration's…
2026-07-22 · 6 MIN READThe administration arrested 43,138 people in June — the highest single-month total since the President took office and launched the largest deportation campaign in American history. DHS has removed more than 590,600 people since January…
2026-07-21 · 6 MIN READAllysia Finley's interview with Kevin Sabet in the Wall Street Journal presents a remarkable figure: a man who watched America's weed-legalization experiment unfold and kept saying what no one on the cultural commanding heights wanted to…
2026-07-19 · 3 MIN READDan McLaughlin, writing in the National Review, has had the courage to state what the age of humanitarian sentiment prefers to leave unspoken: that the sovereign nation is a household under God, and that a household has the right — indeed,…
2026-07-16 · 7 MIN READThe Physicians for Human Rights report released this week catalogs 412 instances in which crowd-control weapons met the bodies of protesters outside ICE detention centers — and reads the resulting injuries as failures of the system. The…
2026-07-14 · 5 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security's enforcement operation in the East End of Houston on Tuesday morning was a routine exercise of the sovereign's plenary authority over the alien within the gates. The Immigration and Nationality Act…
2026-07-12 · 5 MIN READThe Supreme Court of the United States has spoken. The Secretary of Homeland Security has lawfully terminated the Temporary Protected Status designations that had sheltered Haitian and Syrian nationals from removal. The Court has affirmed…
2026-07-12 · 9 MIN READJames Lileks has stated the obvious in these pages, and the obvious is worth stating again: the city of Minneapolis has permitted an open-air drug market, and the mayor, Jacob Frey, has now moved to disperse it. The Lileks column (Let's…
2026-07-10 · 6 MIN READRobert P. George, "Obergefell, Eleven Years On" (National Review, July 5, 2026) sets out the case for the conjugal understanding of marriage with the precision the subject requires. The Constitution contains no definition of marriage. It…
2026-07-05 · 3 MIN READIn a profile in The Wall Street Journal of Edwin Meese III at ninety-four, James Taranto marks the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter as the latest entry in a forty-year ledger. On Monday the Court overruled Humphrey's…
2026-07-03 · 6 MIN READHeather Johnston, founder of the U.S. Israel Education Association, sets out the case plainly in "America and Israel: A covenant, not a contract" (Fox News, July 1, 2026). The bond between the United States and the Jewish people, she…
2026-07-02 · 9 MIN READMichael R. Davis, the founder and president of the Article III Project, has put the doctrinal case in its cleanest form in a Fox News column of July 2, 2026. The Fourteenth Amendment, he writes, "was passed after the Civil War to give…
2026-06-25 · 4 MIN READA panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security may apply expedited removal to the full extent that Congress authorized. The decision is a…
2026-06-23 · 7 MIN READThe Free Exercise Clause has rarely enjoyed a season like the present. In the last decade, this Court has held that a state tuition program open to private schools must include religious ones (Carson v. Makin); that a public-school…
2026-06-21 · 5 MIN READThe Trump administration has, since early September of last year, conducted a sustained campaign of armed strikes against vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, designated by the executive as engaged in…
2026-06-20 · 7 MIN READ
