Constitutional Opinion No. 2026-0653
Case Information
- Content Scored
- Commentary roundup: Trump's "gates of hell" order on Iran and activation of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court
- Source
- Substack (aaronparnas.substack.com)
- Author
- Aaron Parnas
- Publication Date
- 2026-07-18
- Content Type
- Opinion
- Opinion Issued
- 2026-07-18
- AFCS Version
- 1.0
Holding
This commentary reports, with a critical and alarmed tone, that President Trump has "reportedly" ordered the military to "open the gates of hell" on Iran after two U.S. service members were killed, and that the administration has activated the "never-before-used" Alien Terrorist Removal Court to deport foreign nationals accused of terrorism. As a multi-topic roundup, the Court scores its dominant content under Rule 21. The piece's framing sits against the Constitution on its central immigration point: it treats the removal of alleged foreign-national terrorists as alarming rather than as the protective enforcement Article VI favors. Its escalation-caution and due-process concerns carry a limited resonance with the Constitution's non-interventionist (Article XVI) and rule-of-law commitments, which the Court credits but does not overstate. Reasonably attributed but hedged and editorially charged, the piece lands at Mixed.
It is the judgment of this Court that Opinion No. 2026-0653 is hereby entered into the record, in accordance with the America First Constitutional Standard. The score stands. The reasoning is published. The record is public.