The Justice Department is moving to revoke citizenship from a dozen naturalized Americans, marking a dramatic acceleration of the denaturalization push under the Trump administration — 22 cases filed since January 2025, compared to an average of 11 per year across the entire period from 1990 to 2017.

Said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: "The Trump administration is taking action to correct these egregious violations of our immigration system."

The cases filed so far include a man with alleged ties to al Qaeda, a former Gambian police officer accused of war crimes, and a Colombian-born priest convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. The republic has every right — and every duty — to pursue those cases. What comes next deserves a harder look.

A Utah Supreme Court justice resigned this week after a judicial conduct investigation into an alleged personal relationship with an attorney who litigated a high-stakes redistricting case before her court — a case that determined whether Utah would keep four Republican congressional seats.

Justice Diana Hagen, who served on the bench for twenty-six years, wrote in her resignation letter to Gov. Spencer Cox: "I also understand that public officials are rightly held to a higher standard and must accept a greater degree of public scrutiny and diminished privacy." The Judicial Conduct Commission conducted a preliminary investigation and chose not to pursue formal action. Hagen said she voluntarily recused herself from cases involving attorney David Reymann in May 2025.

The Honor Code's first obligation is simple: don't put yourself where the conflict lives. When a judge cannot guarantee the separation of personal loyalty from the authority of the bench, the constitutional order she swore to uphold is already compromised — whatever the conduct commission decides.

Marcos Humberto Vindel Osorio, 75, flew into Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport on June 8, 2024. His family had told Spirit Airlines he had dementia. Spirit confirmed assistance would be provided. By 7:43 p.m., Customs records show he had cleared the terminal alone. His family waited at the checkpoint. He never came. He was found dead on the side of a Texas freeway, struck by multiple vehicles.

Said attorney Russ Brudner: "They trusted an airline to keep their father safe for the last few miles of his journey home. That trust was broken in the most devastating way possible."

The family filed suit April 22 — less than two weeks before Spirit declared bankruptcy. They're now a creditor in liquidation proceedings. The boardroom cut costs until there was no one left to walk an old man to his daughter. That's not an accident. That's what race-to-the-bottom looks like when a working family pays the price.

Alabama Republicans signed legislation on May 9, 2026 authorizing the governor to call new primary elections if courts lift the injunction protecting the current congressional map — the map that produced Rep. Shomari Figures's 2024 victory after a federal court rejected the GOP's 2023 version as non-compliant with the Voting Rights Act.

The move came days after the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's majority-Black district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — a ruling Alabama is now citing to ask the Court for emergency relief clearing the way for the 2023 map. Tennessee approved a similar redraw on May 8, carving up that state's only majority-Black district.

The Founders placed the rules of representation at the republic's foundation for a reason: legitimacy flows from the governed, not from whoever draws the lines last. When the map changes mid-decade to serve a party rather than the people, the constitutional order bends toward the boardroom, not the ballot box.

Virginia's Supreme Court moved last month to throw out a voter-approved redistricting referendum, and on Friday, May 8, House Speaker Don Scott and fellow Democrats filed a joint motion asking the court to stay that ruling while they prepare an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to The Hill.

The Founders gave the power to set election rules to legislatures and, ultimately, to the people through their constitutions — not to courts acting after the fact on maps that voters already weighed in on. When courts override ratified referenda on how districts are drawn, the constitutional order gets inverted.

Whoever controls the map controls the republic. That is true whether the party doing it wears red or blue. The oath doesn't have a party registration.

The Virginia Supreme Court struck down a Democratic-drawn congressional map that would have eliminated four Republican-held seats, ruling 4-3 that the referendum was passed in violation of Article XII, Section 1 of the Virginia Constitution — specifically the requirement that constitutional amendments survive an intervening election before going to voters. Democrats pushed the referendum through on October 31, 2025, days before Election Day and weeks into early voting.

The constitutional failure wasn't cheap. The state spent more than $5 million on the special election; activist organizations poured upward of $60 million into the campaign to pass it, per Axios reporting.

The Virginia Supreme Court's ruling: "This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void." What the Founders built wasn't a ladder for whichever party holds power to kick away when convenient. The court, this time, remembered that.

The Virginia Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, struck down a voter-approved redistricting referendum that Democrats said would have flipped four Republican-held House seats — ruling the state legislature violated the Virginia constitution on procedural timing grounds. The Cook Political Report now projects Republicans will net six to seven House seats nationally from the combined effect of this ruling and the Supreme Court's recent decision weakening the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.): "Four unelected justices used semantics to justify a partisan decision that threw out the votes of three million Virginians, something that has never happened in the history of our Commonwealth."

The Founders did not build this republic so that both parties could take turns drawing maps that silence the voter before the vote is cast. That is not competition — it is the swamp wearing a robe. The constitutional order deserves better than a gerrymandering arms race conducted in backrooms on both sides of the aisle.

In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down a proposed redistricting amendment that Democrats passed through the General Assembly after more than 1.3 million Virginians had already cast their ballots — with as little as four days remaining in the 45-day voting window. The court found the maneuver violated Article XII, Section 1 of Virginia's constitution, which requires a proposed amendment to clear two separate legislatures with an intervening election so voters can weigh in before the second vote.

The court was direct: "Under this thesis, early Virginia voters unknowingly forfeited their constitutionally protected opportunity to vote for or against delegates who favor or disfavor amending the Constitution by not anticipating a legislative vote on a constitutional amendment four days before the last day of voting."

Attorney General Jay Jones called the ruling a silencing of Virginians' voices. The court called it the only reading that makes the words of the constitution mean anything. The Founders built procedural guardrails for exactly this reason — because process is not bureaucracy. It is the constitutional order itself.