reconciliation bill

The Senate’s latest reconciliation bill, officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” is a sprawling package aimed at slashing Medicaid, cutting taxes, and gutting federal regulatory power. But buried deep within its language lies a provision so dangerous, so surgically designed to undermine judicial oversight, that it threatens the very architecture of American democracy. It would require plaintiffs seeking to block a federal policy through a court injunction to first post massive financial bonds, potentially in the millions or even billions of dollars. If enacted, this single clause could shield unconstitutional actions from judicial review, deny due process to millions, and render our courts effectively powerless in the face of unlawful executive action.

There is a line we are never supposed to cross. A final guardrail, often invisible but deeply trusted. It is the courts. Imperfect, slow, sometimes maddening, yet still the one place where an ordinary citizen can stand toe to toe with the federal government and say, “This is wrong. This is illegal. This must stop.”