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Why the IRS Settlement Is Raising Rule-of-Law Alarms

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Federal employees are trained to respect process even when the process is inconvenient. That is why the reported IRS settlement deserves careful attention—not as a partisan headlin...

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DOJ-IRS Settlement Raises Rule-of-Law Alarms

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Federal employees know what it means to work inside rules. Procurement rules, ethics rules, chain-of-command rules, disclosure rules, and merit-system rules are not technicalities....

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Fired for Following a Federal Court Order

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For federal employees, the reported firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan raises a question far bigger than one Pentagon personnel decision: what happens when public servants are pu...

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Judge Orders Musk Deposition Over USAID Shutdown

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A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk to sit for a sworn deposition about DOGE’s role in the USAID shutdown—and used language rarely seen in this context. The court found “extraord...

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What the FBI’s Georgia Election Office Raid Really Means

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Federal employees are trained to read process before panic. That lens is especially important after reports that the FBI executed a search warrant at a Georgia election office. Hea...

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2,300 Unlawful ICE Detentions Since July 2025

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Federal employees are trained to think in systems, not slogans. That is why a striking number deserves careful attention: since July, federal judges have ruled at least 2,300 times...

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Pam Bondi’s DOJ: A Troubling 2025 Year in Review

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For many federal employees, 2025 has felt destabilizing—especially for those who built careers around the assumption that the rule of law, not political loyalty, anchors public ser...

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Protecting Democracy: Why Trump's Targeting of Law Firms Should Concern Us All

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Recent executive actions by former President Donald Trump have raised alarm bells across the legal and civil rights communities. By using presidential power to target law firms tha...

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