Jonathan D. Urick 🟦🇮🇱🎗️

Iran isn’t giving Trump an off-ramp. He must choose between escalation and humiliation.

Ben is an amazing choice. I have known him for more than a decade and consider him a good friend. Hard to find a smarter lawyer anywhere.

The stakes are always higher when you replace a judicial legend. For the last 23 years, Chief Judge Jeff Sutton has served the Sixth Circuit as a model jurist. His successor, @BenFlowersOH, another Scalia clerk, is the perfect pick to continue his legacy. @realDonaldTrump/posts/116377358457034052" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…

A very strong choice:

Ben Flowers is a superb pick for the Sixth Circuit. He’s a top notch lawyer and a full-spectrum conservative who will add to that court. Great pick by the president.

‘Open the school!’ Hundreds of parents are demanding Fairfax County to add more 5-day school weeks. Right now, fewer than half of the school weeks have five days of instruction time in Fairfax County Public Schools. wjla.com/news/local/hun…

An exit tax violates the U.S. Constitution and likely state constitutions as well. Major Supreme Court case could easily be filed over this.

@romanhelmetguy It’s also already blatantly unconstitutional, without any action by Congress needed. An exit tax would clearly violate the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which prohibits state taxes that punish and discriminate against the movement of people or property across borders.

Congress has the full power to stop this. It can regulate interstate commerce. Moving your wealth across state lines should not be a taxable event. That’s against the spirit of the United States.

An exit tax would seem to blatantly violate the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce Clause by discriminating against the movement of people and property across state borders.

Trump’s Iran Miscalculation nationalreview.com/2026/04/trumps…

This would violate international treaties that the US is bound by.

This ceasefire deal isn't going to hold. And, frankly, it shouldn't. There is no deal to be had over the medium or long-term with Tehran. The sooner we recognize this reality, the better.

Any toll to pass through the Strait of Hormuz would not be “a beautiful thing,” as the president contended to ABC News Jonathan Karl. It would represent an unprecedented surrender of freedom of navigation, which the U.S. Navy has fought to preserve and protect since Thomas Jefferson was president. From the days of the Barbary pirates to the Somali pirates and the Houthis, the U.S. and its allies have contended that U.S. ships can sail wherever they want, whenever they want, in international waters, and no state, entity, or force gets to restrict that. The Strait of Hormuz is legally international waters. Neither Iran, nor Oman, nor the United States is legally permitted to charge a fee or threaten force against ships that do not pay a fee. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the reason the U.S. was destroying the Iranian navy was to “ensure freedom of navigation.” If the U.S. had always been amenable to the Iranian regime charging a fee to all the tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz . . . why did we just fight this war?

There has been no regime change in Iran. Nobody who is serious actually believes this. The US needs to stop repeating this lie, unless they are bluffing and planning something.

If true, this is not a “reopening of the Strait of Hormuz”, but a complete capitulation to the regime's demands.

Iran is demanding institutionalized piracy on the high seas. This must not happen. 🏴‍☠️

I had a horrible nightmare last night that a ceasefire was agreed to that allowed the Iranian regime to continue ruling Iran

These 10 points are an absolute disaster

The President of the United States now openly discussing operating a joint protection racket with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Delusional and weak.

It's a simple enough metric - if we accept this as the new normal, we lost this war.