In a pattern that raises enduring questions about the boundaries of executive power, President Trump has turned to national security as a broad justification for policies ranging from press restrictions to the design of a monument fortified with snipers and drones. The administration's reach suggests that when legal resistance emerges, security language becomes the instrument of defense — a strategy as old as statecraft itself, yet one that courts are now being asked to measure against constitutional limits. What is unfolding in Washington is not merely a legal dispute but a reckoning over how