Washington has once again managed to turn a criminal investigation into a political firestorm, and this time, the center of attention is Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Yesterday, federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations searched Omar's Washington, D.C., home under a warrant obtained by the Department of Justice. The search was part of an…
Al Green’s Impeachment Effort and the Debate Over Immigration Enforcement
The dispute over President Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda has reached the impeachment debate. Representative Al Green’s effort raises a question that goes beyond whether Americans favor more deportations: When does the way an administration enforces immigration law become grounds for removing a president? House lawmakers rejected the effort. That establishes its immediate legislative outcome, but…
The $103,265 H-1B Fee Proposal and the Future of Skilled Immigration
Washington has discovered a way to make immigration paperwork cost more than some houses. As The Hill reports, the Department of Homeland Security formally published a proposed rule yesterday that would add a $103,265 fee to every cap-subject H-1B petition, including petitions under the advanced-degree exemption. The charge would come on top of the filing…
The Border, the Bump, and the Citizenship Battle
The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship has set off the next round of immigration politics: not just who gets citizenship after birth, but who should be allowed into the country before birth. Specifically, some have begun floating tighter restrictions on pregnant foreign visitors entering the United States. The issue is “birth tourism,” meaning foreign…
Birthright Citizenship Survives, and the Justices Bring the Receipts
The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship ruling is one of those cases where constitutional text, history, immigration policy, presidential power, and judicial philosophy all collide in one very crowded legal hallway. The Court affirmed the lower court’s judgment against President Trump’s executive order, which sought to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to…
The “Anti-Weaponization” Fund: Good Principle, Terrible Packaging
The Justice Department’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund is one of those ideas that sounds righteous in theory but politically combustible in practice. The basic claim behind it isn’t hard to understand: if federal agencies used government power to punish people for their politics, beliefs, speech, associations, or religious convictions, those people deserve more than a polite…
Investigating E. Jean Carroll: Equal Justice or Political Payback?
The Justice Department has reportedly opened a perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll, focusing on whether she lied during civil litigation against President Trump when she said no one else was paying her legal fees. AP reports that the probe is being led by federal prosecutors in Chicago, while acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is…
When Wartime Immunity Meets Real-World Negligence
Sometimes the Supreme Court hands down a decision that doesn’t just split along predictable ideological lines. It flips the script entirely. That’s exactly what happened in Hencely v. Fluor Corp., where a 6–3 majority allowed a wounded U.S. soldier’s lawsuit against a military contractor to proceed. And yes, if you did a double take when…
Expulsion or Excuses? Congress Confronts Its Own Credibility Problem
At first glance, the situation involving Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick looked like yet another entry in the long-running series called Congressional Ethics Questions: Season 47. You know the script: allegations surface, everyone calls for an investigation, and leadership urges patience while quietly calculating the political fallout. But this case doesn’t sit comfortably in that familiar script…
Hungary’s Political Earthquake
Let’s not undersell this: Viktor Orbán losing an election to Péter Magyar is the kind of event that makes political analysts do a double take and then check the results again just to be sure. For over a decade, Orbán didn’t just win elections; he dominated them. He built a political brand around inevitability. The…
