Simon Gale

President Donald Trump signed the Clergy Act into law, granting religious ministers a bespoke amnesty to re-enter Social Security. Having sworn under penalty of perjury that their conscience forbade public insurance, the sacerdotal caste now demands secular rescue at public expense. The measure exposes a craven political settlement that subordinates universal civic obligations to holy privilege.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the executive branch can conceal the records of its Department of Government Efficiency behind claims of advisory privilege. By entertaining the administration’s bid to suppress discovery into mass layoffs and contract cancellations, the justices threaten to codify an unaccountable shadow government.

By designating the International Criminal Court under emergency sanctions, the Trump administration has launched an extortionate assault on the very concept of universal legal accountability. The decree converts the American financial monopoly into a private cordon sanitaire for political allies and military brass credibly accused of atrocities.