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When “Equal Protection” Means Protecting Only Some: Race, Law, and the Constitution’s Costume Changes

The Headline They Won’t Print “Colleges Can’t Consider Race in Admissions, But ICE Can When They Stop You on the Street” That is the American paradox in its purest form. The same Supreme Court majority that clutched pearls over Harvard and UNC using race as one factor in evaluating applicants has no issue with Border
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Chicago as Training Ground: A Federal Dress Rehearsal in Urban Camouflage

What is a city for, if not shopping, dining, living, and occasionally being transformed into a federal obstacle course? Chicago, always known for deep-dish pizza and mobster clichés, has now been recast as the Pentagon’s favorite indoor paintball arena. Only this time the paintball guns are real rifles, and the “players” are U.S. citizens unlucky
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Shutdown Showdown: When the Federal Lights Flicker, Standing Ground Might Be the Only Power Move Left

Washington, D.C. — the unfortunate date when “the lights go out” became literal again. After the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending bill, the White House ordered agencies to activate shutdown protocols at exactly 12:01 a.m. on October 1. Through memos from OMB and OPM invoking the Antideficiency Act, the chaos began: mass furloughs,






