Jan. 7, 2026 6 AM PT
To the editor: Earlier than revealing his political want record for 2026, contributing author Josh Hammer lauds President Trump’s “progressive use of the Nationwide Guard” (“We saw progress and peril in 2025. There’s hope for Trump’s next year,” Jan. 1). The U.S. Supreme Courtroom, as conservative and executive-branch-favoring as the vast majority of its justices are, disagrees with this sycophantic characterization in a recent 6-3 ruling, discovering that Trump didn’t have the constitutional authority to order such deployment in Chicago.
On the precise want record, Hammer hopes for a “victory on birthright citizenship.” Proper-wing political rhetoric that ties the 14th Modification to human trafficking is unsupported by any proof, with trafficking being extensively pushed by coercion, fraud, demand for compelled labor and intercourse trafficking. Furthermore, there isn’t a proof that undocumented immigrants come to the U.S. simply to offer start. Descriptions of birthright citizenship as “ruinous” or an “incentive for unlawful immigration” are unsupported by any vetted information.
In regard to Russia’s “reliable” pursuits in invading Ukraine: There are none, in accordance with the U.N. General Assembly, the worldwide group and legal experts. Hammer, being neither Russian nor Ukranian, finds it simple to say splitting the child is completely tremendous. Republicans was bulwarks in opposition to the “Russian Bear.” Not.
Neal Rosenthal, Woodland Hills
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To the editor: Hammer accuses the earlier administration (I infer that’s what he means by “leftist elite-driven chaos”) of participating in “hyper-vindictive lawfare,” claiming we’ve got now reverted to “regulation and order.” The arrest, incarceration and deportation of individuals with out due course of? Brazen defiance of court docket orders? Frivolous lawsuits in opposition to former FBI Director James Comey, New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James and others? The wholesale pardoning of criminals who attacked the capital? Shameless extortion of regulation corporations, universities and media firms? That is Hammer’s concept of regulation and order? Give us a break.
J.B. White, Ojai
