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June 28, 2026

MLB Finally Remembers the First Amendment

After pressure from Congress and the Department of Justice, Major League Baseball finally came to its senses. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced this week that there will be no punishment for three San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.

Imagine that-players who quietly expressed their faith nearly got into trouble while the league had no problem turning baseball games into June political rallies.

MLB's own policy says special uniforms should be rare. Yet every June, the Giants and Dodgers receive a special exemption that forces Christian players into an unnecessary choice: compromise your faith or become the story.

Baseball should be about balls, strikes, and home runs-not ideological loyalty tests. Religious liberty doesn't take June off, and neither does the First Amendment.

I applaud Senator Josh Hawley and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon for standing up for religious liberty. For too long, faithful Americans have been told to keep their beliefs to themselves while every fashionable political cause received a standing ovation. Thankfully, President Trump has begun restoring common sense-and equal treatment under the law.

President Trump Goes Three-for-Three at the Supreme Court

President Trump scored three important victories before the Supreme Court this week, reaffirming something Washington too often forgets: immigration laws actually mean what they say.

The Court upheld the administration's authority to end "temporary" protected status programs that had become anything but temporary, reinforced commonsense immigration enforcement, and rejected efforts to rewrite our immigration laws from the bench.

For years, activist judges and open-border politicians have treated immigration statutes as optional suggestions. This week's rulings were a welcome reminder that Congress writes the laws-and presidents are supposed to enforce them.

Elections have consequences. So do judicial appointments.

Another Rogue Judge, Another Roadblock

Apparently, another unelected federal judge believes proving you're an American citizen before voting in American elections is simply too much to ask.

This week, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan temporarily blocked implementation of President Trump's SAVE Act, claiming it threatens voting rights. In reality, the SAVE Act does one simple thing: it requires proof of citizenship before someone registers to vote in a federal election.

Here's what I find fascinating. Democrats insist illegal voting almost never happens. Yet they fight tooth and nail against every effort to make sure it never happens.

A recent lawsuit revealed that roughly 50,000 Arizona voters were registered without documented proof of citizenship. President Biden carried Arizona in 2020 by fewer than 11,000 votes.

If proof of citizenship changes nothing, why are Democrats so desperate to stop it?

Washington has developed a fascinating new rule: asking someone to prove they're an American before voting is somehow "controversial." Somewhere along the way, common sense became controversial.

The Constitution isn't self-enforcing. It requires elected officials-and judges-willing to enforce it.

More Homes. Less Bureaucracy.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act this week, and I proudly support it.

Instead of throwing more taxpayer money at the housing market, this bill attacks the real problems driving prices higher by cutting unnecessary regulations, increasing housing supply, streamlining environmental reviews, and limiting the ability of massive institutional investors to corner the housing market.

American families shouldn't have to compete against billion-dollar investment firms or foreign interests to buy their first home. Homeownership remains one of the best ways families build generational wealth, and public policy should reflect that.

Unfortunately, an electronic voting card malfunction prevented my vote from being recorded before time expired. I immediately submitted my official statement to the Congressional Record making clear my intended YES vote.

Let me be perfectly clear: I fully support President Trump's efforts to make housing more affordable for hardworking Americans.

The Senate Needs Fewer Excuses and More Backbone

House Republicans have done our job. We passed the SAVE Act to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections.

Now it's sitting in the United States Senate.

Apparently, Senate Republicans have convinced themselves that asking Democrats to publicly defend noncitizen voting would somehow be politically risky.

News flash-that's exactly why you hold the vote.

If Democrats truly believe proof of citizenship is unreasonable, then let them explain that position to the American people on national television.

Instead, we hear endless excuses about procedure, political realities, and Senate traditions.

The Senate wasn't created to be a museum where good legislation goes to die. It was created to debate bills and vote on them.

For too many senators, the filibuster has become an excuse for inaction rather than a tool for debate.

That is one reason I proudly cosponsored legislation this week that would repeal the 17th Amendmentand returning the selection of senators to state legislatures, restoring the Senate's original purpose as the voice of the states instead of a permanent campaign stop.

America doesn't have time for excuses.

The House has acted. President Trump is leading.

Now it's time for the Senate to do its job.

Court Confirms What I've Said for Years: Presidents Are Not Kings

For more than a decade, I've warned that presidents have abused the Antiquities Act to lock up millions of acres of public land with the stroke of a pen. This week, a federal appeals court finally agreed on an important point: the President's authority under the Antiquities Act is not unlimited, and courts have the power to review whether a president exceeded the authority Congress actually granted.

That's a major victory for the Constitution, for the separation of powers, and for every American who believes no president-Republican or Democrat-is above the law.

When Congress passed the Antiquities Act in 1906, its purpose was straightforward. It allowed presidents to quickly protect specific archaeological sites, historic landmarks, and scientific treasures on federal land from looting or destruction. Congress even included an important safeguard: any monument must be limited to "the smallest area compatible" with protecting the object in question.

That seems simple enough.

Somewhere along the way, however, "the smallest area compatible" became "as many millions of acres as we can get away with."

Instead of protecting a historic cliff dwelling or archaeological site, modern presidents-particularly Democrat presidents-have increasingly used the Antiquities Act to place enormous swaths of the American West off limits to the people who live, work, hunt, ranch, mine, and recreate there.

The numbers tell the story.

For decades after the law passed, presidents designated relatively small monuments. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower each protected fewer than 500 acres. John F. Kennedy designated fewer than 1,000 acres.

Then came the modern era.

President Jimmy designated roughly 56 million acres. President Bill Clinton nearly six million. President Barack Obama more than 550 million acres. President Biden added more than 20 million acres of his own.

That's not preserving an artifact. That's making land-use policy without Congress.

This week's ruling arose from Utah's challenge to the massive Obama-era Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monument designations. While the court did not decide whether those monuments themselves were lawful, it rejected the notion that presidents possess virtually unchecked authority under the Antiquities Act.

That matters.

For years, opponents argued that once a president declared a monument, courts were essentially powerless to question whether the designation complied with the law. The Tenth Circuit disagreed. It recognized that when Congress places limits on presidential authority, those limits actually mean something.

Imagine that.

The Constitution wasn't written to give any president a blank check. Congress writes the laws. Presidents execute them. Courts interpret them. That's how our system is supposed to work.

I've long argued that decisions affecting millions of acres of public land should involve Congress, state governments, local communities, and the people whose livelihoods depend on that land-not unilateral decrees from Washington bureaucrats.

This decision doesn't end the fight over federal land management, but it is an important step toward restoring constitutional checks and balances.

The Constitution isn't self-enforcing. It requires public officials-an

d courts-willing to enforce it.

This week, the court did exactly that.

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Photo of the Week:

Daniel Hagan from Payson was recently paddleboarding and snapped this amazing photo of a family of deer drinking from the lake. Daniel, another great picture! You always seem to be at right place at the right time whenever you're paddleboarding!

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