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							<title><![CDATA[How Israel Lost the Young Right]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/barnes_law/status/1985040027659936137</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First, most Americans preferred to stay out of Israel's wars, always. This trend never changed in the 75+ year history of American public opinion on the subject. Second, Americans always turned sour on Israel whenever it went from bullied to bully, whether 1956, 1967, 1973, 1983 or 2025.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Emboldened Supreme Court Majority Takes Big Step]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/emboldened-supreme-court-majority-shows-it-e2-80-99s-eager-for-change/ar-AAYQWHa</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Breyer to Retire From Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-stephen-breyer-to-retire-from-supreme-court/ar-AATaE3e?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term, according to a person familiar with his plans, giving President Biden a chance to reinforce the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s liberal minority and make good on his campaign pledge to make history by nominating the first...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sessions Must Dismiss Mueller on Non-Campaign Cases]]></title>
							<link>https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/constitution-jeff-sessions-dismiss-robert-mueller-non-campaign-cases/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Paul Manafort'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'s legal team brought a motion to dismiss on Tuesday, noting that Rosenstein could not appoint Mueller to any investigation outside the scope of the 2016 campaign since Sessions did not recuse himself for anything outside the campaign. I agree with this take on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Clinton Campaign Be Indicted for Chris Steele?]]></title>
							<link>https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/does-mueller-indictment-mean-clinton-campaign-can-be-indicted-for-chris-steele/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Special Counsel'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' indicted foreign citizens for trying to influence the American public about an election because those citizens did not register as a foreign agent nor record their financial expenditures to the Federal Elections Commission. By that theory, when will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comey Tried to Indict Trump, May Have Indicted Himself]]></title>
							<link>http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/comey-was-before-congress-to-indict-trump-instead-he-might-have-indicted-himself/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The key'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' interlude'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' occurred with the ubiquitous Kamala Harris, the same Senator Harris who failed the bar the first time she took the bar exam. Only a Kamala-Comey marriage could birth this debacle:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Would Be a Fool to Listen to Establishment on Bannon]]></title>
							<link>http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/if_trump_loses_bannon_trump_loses_the_presidency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I bet big on Donald Trump in the 2016 elections, rather famously. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Now I will be shorting Trump stock for the foreseeable future until Bannon, and Bannon-ism, returns to policy dominance in the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch: No Such Thing as a Republican or Democratic Judge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/supreme-court-nominee-gorsuch-starts-day-two-of-confirmation-hearings/2017/03/20/ccd81b02-0dbf-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judge Neil Gorsuch sought to reassure senators on Tuesday that he would not be swayed by political pressure if he wins confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' trying to take the steam out of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' anticipated attacks from Democrats likely to push him to distance himself from President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Obama and His Team Could Face Serious Trouble]]></title>
							<link>http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/yes-obama-could-be-prosecuted-if-involved-with-illegal-surveillance/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump recently tweeted claiming that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' former President Obama wiretapped'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' him'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' during his campaign. One can only imagine how nuts the media would have gone if the roles had been reversed: President Trump wiretapping either Obama or the Clintons, though his DOJ could have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Columbia Undergrad, Harvard Law, Marshall Scholarship to Oxford]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/neil-gorsuch-naturally-equipped-for-his-spot-on-trumps-supreme-court-shortlist/2017/01/28/91b00a46-e49b-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?utm_term=.a15edf0f1c5b</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Picks Judge Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-picks-colo-appeals-court-judge-neil-gorsuch-for-supreme-court/2017/01/31/2b08a226-e55e-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.d0acaa395e59</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, opting in the most important decision of his young presidency for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment to fill the opening created last year by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies at 79]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-dies-at-79/2016/02/13/effe8184-a62f-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-high_scalia-535pm:homepage/story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual cornerstone of the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s modern conservative wing, whose elegant and acidic opinions inspired a movement of legal thinkers and ignited liberal critics, died Feb. 13 on a ranch near Marfa, Tex. He was 79.The cause of death was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court: Too Liberal?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/the-supreme-court-too-liberal/2015/07/26/5e31c988-320f-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not often that the liberals at Netroots Nation and tea party favorite Ted Cruz would both convene tribunals to investigate a group they consider a threat to America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s future.So a tip of the hat to the Supreme Court of the United States, bringing people together.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of John Roberts' Dream?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamacare-threatens-to-end-john-robertss-dream-of-a-nonpartisan-supreme-court/2015/02/27/325cd0cc-bcb3-11e4-8668-4e7ba8439ca6_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first time the Affordable Care Act came before the Supreme Court, its constitutional foundation under attack, John G. Roberts Jr. was its unlikely savior. In a spectacular display of spot-welding, the chief justice joined fellow conservatives on some points and brought liberals on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Gay Marriage Ruling Looms]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/as-supreme-court-term-begins-prospect-of-a-gay-marriage-ruling-looms-large/2014/10/04/8d0df452-4bbf-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Question Facing Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/the-question-facing-ruth-bader-ginsburg-stay-or-go/2013/10/04/4d789e28-1574-11e3-a2ec-b47e45e6f8ef_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who dreamed up this bit of kismet? How did the stars align to make this spot of New Mexico desert the best place in the world on a late summer evening to be Ruth Bader Ginsburg?Ginsburg is doing what she always does this time of year. On a respite from one of her passions '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the law...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Concedes Close and Sometimes Bitter Contest]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/after-grueling-campaign-polls-open-for-election-day-2012/2012/11/06/d1c24c98-2802-11e2-b4e0-346287b7e56c_story.html?hpid=z1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rulings to Close Tough Term for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-obama-supreme-court-health-care-immigration-rulings-to-close-a-tough-term/2012/06/24/gJQAhWWH0V_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court this week will conclude its term by handing down much-anticipated rulings on health care and immigration, President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s remaining priorities before the justices. It is a finale that cannot come quickly enough for the administration, which has had a long year at the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Court Could Save Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-roberts-court-could-save-health-care/2012/03/07/gIQALljXGS_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the inaugural oath do-over to an unprecedented State of the Union throwdown, relations between President Obama and the conservative members of the Supreme Court have had an unusually cantankerous feel.If it had been up to Obama, after all, John G. Roberts Jr. would not have been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court to Review Health Care Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-obamas-health-care-overhaul/2011/11/11/gIQALTvrKN_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court decided on Monday to review President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2010 health-care overhaul, promising a high-profile hearing on the question dominating American politics: the constitutional limits of the federal government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power.No initiative has exemplified Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomayor Girds for Hill Battle]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002390.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&amp;sub=AR</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Fate Hinges on '08 Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502175.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[McCain: Work For Voters, Not Party]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403057.html?hpid=topnews</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Barnes</author>
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