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Instead it is using our nation’s foundational civil rights law as a pretext to coerce states into abandoning efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through lawful programs and policies.”

While “rationality” is a low baseline, it was foundational to the framers’ conception of the new country that they were creating with the Constitution.

So that's the first bucket: “How are we addressing those costs, the foundational building blocks of the American dream, and what are we doing to tangibly lower those costs?”

������’s happening right now is not a matter of opinion or partisanship—it’s a test of whether we believe in the foundational idea that the law should protect people, not just power.

In fact, the whole notion of checks and balances — a foundational principle of American democracy — has gone out the window, Murkowski suggested in Anchorage.