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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.
Robert 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 leaves that question to the states. Obergefell invented a constitutional right nowhere grounded in text, history, or structure — an exercise…
3 MIN READOn the 250th anniversary of the republic, Aaron Evans, vice president of the Young Leadership affinity group for the Washington, D.C., chapter of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, has set down in these pages (Fox News Opinion, July 5, 2026) what deserves to be read with care. The constitutional order of the United States descends, by the founders' own admission, from the…
8 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…
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…
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…
4 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 football coach may kneel at midfield after the game in quiet prayer (Kennedy v. Bremerton); that a website designer may decline to compose speech…
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 narco-trafficking. As of this week, the count of those killed has reached at least two hundred and eleven. The legal architecture of the campaign rests on…
7 MIN READThe federal government's authority to detain aliens pending removal is among the oldest and most settled exercises of sovereignty in the American constitutional order. The Framers placed the naturalization power — and with it, by necessary…
5 MIN READThe Supreme Court of the United States, in the waning days of its June term, is poised to render judgment on two questions that go to the foundations of American citizenship and the sovereign's authority over those who sojourn within its…
7 MIN READThe Federal Trade Commission, joined by the attorneys general of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, has filed suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is correct in his first…
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