（This essay examines what the current Supreme Court cases reveal about America’s deepest crisis — the blurring of the line between the lawful and the unlawful. It argues that this is not merely a legal or political issue, but a spiritual one that touches the soul of the nation. When law loses its holiness, chaos follows; but when truth returns to law, justice will cover the land, the people will awaken, and the light of “one nation under God” will once again shine across America— even if time is short and every moment now matters.）

I. A Case That Reveals the Nation’s Turning Point

On October 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court reheard arguments in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that may redefine the role of race in drawing congressional districts nationwide. Louisiana’s legislature had adopted a map creating a second majority-Black district after federal courts found the original map diluted Black voting power. Now the question before the Court is whether compliance with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act itself violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments — in other words, whether race-based redistricting can ever be constitutionally sustained.

The justices appeared deeply skeptical of long-standing practices of race-conscious map drawing. Their questions suggested they may curtail or severely limit Section 2’s reach in future redistricting. This case is more than a technical legal debate: it sits at the heart of who holds political power and how that power is defined.

II. The Core Legal Paradox

 The law is clear: only citizens may vote, and immigrants must come through lawful channels. Yet under the current system, representation is distributed not by citizenship but by residence — counting everyone, including those who are in the country illegally.

In America’s constitutional design, political representation goes beyond the simple act of casting a ballot. The founders established not only the principle of “one person, one vote,” but also the Electoral College and the apportionment of congressional seats. Both are based on population counts rather than on the number of eligible voters.

This means that representation — the legal mechanism through which citizens exercise collective power — is calculated according to how many people are counted, not how many are lawfully entitled to vote. Every ten years, the national census determines how many seats each state receives in the House of Representatives and how many votes it holds in the Electoral College.

When unlawful residents are included in those counts, states with larger illegal populations gain disproportionate representation — more seats, more electoral votes, and ultimately more political influence — even though many of those residents cannot legally cast a ballot. What was designed to preserve equality among the states has, in practice, created an imbalance among lawful citizens.

Moreover, voting is the solemn responsibility and privilege of lawful citizens alone. It is not granted even to legal permanent residents holding green cards, let alone to those who have entered or remained in the country unlawfully. The integrity of America’s electoral system rests on this foundation — that only those who are part of the legal covenant of citizenship may choose the nation’s leaders and shape its future.

This creates a constitutional paradox. In a nation where the right to vote belongs exclusively to citizens, political power is still apportioned according to total population, not lawful membership. To restore coherence between law and representation, every state must separate two lines of data:

1. How many citizens live in this state?

2. How many illegal residents — both those officially recorded and those unrecorded but present within the nation’s borders — are living here?

Only by drawing this distinction can lawmakers, courts, and the people themselves truly understand the state of the Union — where the lawful population ends and the unlawful begins. The next steps — whether enforcement, policy reform, or reapportionment — are matters of outcome. But the first step is simple and legal: align the numbers with the law.

This creates a the law.

III. The Paradox Exposed

The core issue before America is not to deny what people already see — that some political powers have been deeply compromised while others still struggle to stand upright. Such discernment is not wrong; it is part of recognizing the times.

Yet the higher question remains: can the law be restored to stand above the powers that now abuse it, without being reshaped to serve them again in the name of so-called “justice”?

When law is used at times as a weapon and at other times as a loophole by the same political force, the Republic begins to crumble; for such duplicity turns justice into strategy and truth into prey.

And when laws are rewritten merely to appease one group or to “compensate” a wounded side, evil finds a new doorway to control — disguised as compassion, but rooted in manipulation. It often speaks in the name of “justice,” focusing on branches while severing the roots — just as the serpent in Eden twisted truth to redirect the human gaze away from what was truly holy.

The first duty, therefore, is not to legislate from results, but to restore the distinction between the lawful and the unlawful. Once that line is redrawn with integrity, the results will follow naturally — not through human design, but through the power of restored order and awakened conscience.

We must not imagine law as a tool for partisan advantage. True law stands above party and above power. It does not bend to strategy or expedience, nor to the clamor of those who twist justice for their own gain.

Its strength lies in remaining unshaken — upholding what is right simply because it is right.

Only from that height — the rule of law restored to its moral foundation — can true justice be seen clearly.

Yet in another sense, outcomes do matter. The measure of a law’s success must not be which party it empowers, but whether it strengthens the people, protects the Republic, and preserves the nation’s moral foundation. Even if a party has been captured by corrupt or evil interests, the standard must remain fixed: law must serve truth, not power.

IV. When Law Is Twisted, Evil Enters

When the boundary between the lawful and the unlawful is blurred, it becomes the very gap through which evil forces slip in to take control. And when, after that control is established, the law itself begins to redefine its meaning according to party power or political outcome, it ceases to be law.

A law that shifts with politics, that justifies itself by results, is no longer a pillar of justice but a spectacle for debate — a hollow form stripped of dignity and authority. Those who first exploited its loopholes will then accuse others of “manipulating the law,” because this is what fallen men do: they corrupt truth, and then blame the righteous for the collapse of their own order.

For the sake of the law’s sanctity, such confusion must not exist. What is lawful must remain lawful; what is unlawful must remain unlawful. And when that clarity is restored, the outcome will come — for God Himself will bring it.

V. When Law Breaks, a Nation Falls

Debates over how many benefits illegal immigrants receive — or whether they receive all or only some — are distractions. They serve one purpose: to blur the boundary between what is lawful and what is not. The real issue is not the scale of benefits, but the deliberate erosion of legal order.

America today stands in turmoil — morally, politically, and constitutionally. The nation is being shaken, not merely by economic strain or cultural division, but by the systematic breakdown of legality itself. When laws that once defined citizenship, sovereignty, and electoral integrity are ignored or selectively applied, the result is not mercy — it is chaos.

When the law bends to convenience, the nation begins to walk a path of deception — a path that opens the door for the forces of evil to carry out their plan to destroy America. This is not mercy; it is surrender — and surrender is precisely what the enemies of truth have long awaited.

In recent years, America has faced an unprecedented surge of unlawful crossings at the southern border — not as an accident of circumstance, but as a deliberate strategy by powers seeking to dissolve order from within. This flood has overwhelmed communities, strained resources, and blurred the very meaning of sovereignty. Under such a willful assault on the nation’s borders, the principle of law must not waver: those who enter unlawfully have already chosen to defy the law and must therefore bear the consequences of that choice. Mercy can exist only where truth stands firm; when compassion is severed from justice, it becomes complicity.

VI. When Time Is Short

The right path is clear — law must be restored, the line between the lawful and the unlawful must be redrawn, and truth must once again anchor justice. Yet we are no longer living in a season of leisure. Evil works quickly; it thrives in chaos and delay. Every moment lost in hesitation is a moment gained by those who seek to dismantle America from within.

What, then, can be done when time is short? The answer is both simple and demanding: do what is right, immediately, wherever you stand. If each state, each legislator, each citizen begins to act according to law and conscience now — refusing to yield to deception, compromise, or fear — then even before systems are reformed, the foundation of order will begin to return.

Laws take time to change, but hearts can turn in an instant. And when hearts turn back to truth, the tide begins to shift. History has shown that great awakenings often start not in courts, but in the conscience of ordinary people who refuse to bow to darkness.

We are indeed racing against time — but time belongs to God, not to the wicked. If we act in righteousness, He will multiply the fruit of every effort. Evil may run fast, but justice endures longer. And in the end, truth will always outrun deception.