When Rand Paul called on senior officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to testify before the Senate, he invoked one of Congress’s most fundamental responsibilities: oversight of executive power. That responsibility is not partisan. It’s constitutional. Yet the moment in which this request arrives reveals…
Should We Swap ‘Defense’ for ‘War’?
President Trump recently signed an executive order that dusted off an old name from America’s past: the Department of War. Under this order, the Department of Defense is now permitted to use its original, historical title as a kind of “second name.” And in a nod to tradition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also cleared…
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