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The Constitution does not mention a central bank and does not protect one.

The American argument over religion in public schools runs back to sixteen words.

The Justice Department belongs to the President. It is an executive department, its head serves at the President's pleasure, and the Constitution vests the executive power in one person.

Long before any legislature drafted a blasphemy statute, the offence existed, and it already carried a double character.

The Constitution does not permit a President to staff the federal government alone.

A country cannot argue about whether crime is rising until somebody agrees to count it, and the act of counting is never neutral.

The admissions question asks whether a public or federally funded institution may treat individuals differently because of their race when it allocates a scarce benefit, a seat in an entering class.

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NOAA Fisheries sent all eight regional councils and one division a list of conservation measures to put back on the table, using a route that has no public comment period of its own and leaves behind no record a court can review.

Internal ICE emails released under public records law show officials were ordered to prioritize removing Iranians during the Twelve-Day War, then built three charter flights around manifests Iranian officials helped shape, and a federal judge has just ordered a hearing on whether asylum files were handed over as well.