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Week 56: Jan 18 – Jan 24, 2026 · 🔒 FROZEN

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Events with high constitutional damage but low media attention (Attention Budget < −30).

ICE Memo Asserts Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrant
Enforcement Actionfederal · broad
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62.1
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IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING

PRIORITY CONSTITUTIONAL ALERT: ICE memo asserting warrantless home entry authority requires immediate legal challenge and congressional oversight. This represents direct Fourth Amendment violation with precedent-setting implications for executive power expansion. Demand: (1) immediate legal injunction against warrantless entry policy, (2) congressional hearings on constitutional authority limits, (3) DOJ Office of Legal Counsel review of memo's legal basis, (4) documentation of all warrantless entries for pattern analysis, (5) state-level sanctuary protections for warrant requirements. This is not immigration policy debate—it's fundamental constitutional protection of all residents against unreasonable search and seizure. The mechanism (enforcement memo) creates durable framework that will be difficult to reverse once normalized in practice.