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get to run it. If you oppose public schools, you get to be Secretary of Education. And if you have opposed every inch of progress for civil and human
rights in this country with every fiber of your being--immigrant
rights, gay rights, basic civil rights for people of color, basic
protections to make sure that everyone's vote counts equally--well, in
that case, guess what you get to do, you get to run the Department of
Justice, the agency ultimately charged with making sure everyone gets
equal protection under the law. Up is down, down is up, and it is only his second week. I feel our new President has some learning to do, and a lot of that
learning has to do with the three branches of government, like what the
executive branch should do when a Federal judge tells them to stop
doing something they shouldn't be doing in the first place. I think the new President has a lot to learn about the freedom of
religion, the separation of church and State, and how our refugee
policies work. I think the people of Chicago could teach him a lot
about the Fourth Amendment and its ban on unreasonable search and
seizure and the illegality of holding immigrants in jail without a
warrant. So I am offering to give the President my copy of the Constitution,
autographed by Khizr Khan, the father of a U.S. Army captain killed in
Iraq in 2004, who asked a question I don't think any one of us knows
the answer to.
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