Federal Judge Blocks Trump H-1B Visa Fee, Rules It Exceeds Executive Authority

In a ruling that echoes the enduring tension between executive ambition and constitutional design, a federal judge has struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, finding that what is framed as regulation is, in substance, taxation — a power the Constitution reserves exclusively for Congress. The decision, issued by a judge with a prior record of checking this administration's immigration orders, does not resolve the underlying debate about foreign labor and American opportunity, but rather redirects it: from the executive's desk to the legislature's floor, or perhaps to a h