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In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution

The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.

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The Heritage Foundation, founded in 1973, has long shaped the personnel and policies of Republican administrations.
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The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained

The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.

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Civil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.
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Arrested by Federal Agents, Some D.C. Residents Languished in Jail for Days

At least 11 defendants stayed in jail cells longer than the law allows, in what former prosecutors and criminal lawyers see as a violation of their constitutional rights.

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Courts are grappling with an influx of cases since National Guard troops and federal agents fanned out across the streets of Washington.
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Trump and His Officials Target Fed and CDC, Long Seen as Above Politics

Trump officials say the president is within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.

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Susan Monarez was fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control this week, White House officials said. The move came after she declined to fire agency officials or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine panel overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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