To the editor: Earlier than revealing his political want listing for 2026, contributing author Josh Hammer lauds President Trump’s “revolutionary use of the Nationwide Guard” (“We noticed progress and peril in 2025. There’s hope for Trump’s subsequent 12 months,” 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 latest 6-3 ruling, discovering that Trump didn’t have the constitutional authority to order such deployment in Chicago.
On the precise want listing, 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 provide delivery. Descriptions of birthright citizenship as “ruinous” or an “incentive for unlawful immigration” are unsupported by any vetted information.
In regard to Russia’s “reputable” pursuits in invading Ukraine: There are none, in keeping with the U.N. Normal Meeting, the worldwide group and authorized specialists. Hammer, being neither Russian nor Ukranian, finds it simple to say splitting the infant is completely positive. Republicans was once 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 partaking in “hyper-vindictive lawfare,” claiming we have now now reverted to “legislation 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 legislation corporations, universities and media corporations? That is Hammer’s concept of legislation and order? Give us a break.
J.B. White, Ojai
