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<title><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15059.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ruth Marcus]]></description><category domain="15059">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Long Odds of Undoing Birthright Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/O15gT</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In arguments at the Supreme Court, a clear majority of the Justices seemed inclined to uphold the right.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Letitia James Indictment &amp; the Collapse of Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/73Y74</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question raised by the prosecution of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The answer seems to be no.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Flimsy, Dangerous Indictment of James Comey]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/y42Q5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The charges against the former F.B.I. director look weak. But they may be just the start of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s long-threatened drive to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Very Scary Moment for America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/29/ruth_marcus_were_not_going_to_be_able_to_put_this_broken_system_back_together_once_trumps_gone_very_scary_moment.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist David Brooks and columnist Ruth Marcus join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including Trump officials sharing sensitive information on a commercial app, the reaction to the revelation, the state of U.S. foreign relations and President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Left the Washington Post]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/0OqXO</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I walked into the Washington Post building for the first time in the summer of 1981. Past the red linotype machine that marked the entrance to the Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Fifteenth Street headquarters for so many years and up to the fifth-floor newsroom, a cavernous space that looked just as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Damaging First 2 Weeks in Presidential History]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/3Yisb</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second term is all about curtailing government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power and reach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden&rsquo;s Pardons Were Disappointing. Trump's Are a Travesty]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/cvjj1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pardons for his family are unnecessary. But Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s pardon of the insurrectionists are unforgiveable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Senators Covered Themselves in Shame at Hegseth Hearing]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/iKUGL</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The session showcased an utter lack of willingness to take the Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s constitutional role seriously.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Trump Voters Sign Up for This Much Disruption?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/12/14/ruth_marcus_on_trump_cabinet_trump_voters_signed_up_for_disruption_i_dont_know_if_they_signed_up_for_this_much.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe some, and because I think for this reason. People signed '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the Trump voters signed up for disruption, but I don't know if they signed up for this much disruption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Dangerous &amp; Unqualified Choice for the FBI]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/oqcXi</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s choice of uber-loyalist Kash Patel to be FBI director is a hair-on-fire moment. Trump is poised to install a team of toadies at the Justice Department '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a flotilla of his criminal defense lawyers but most ominously an attorney general, Pam Bondi,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Judge Brushes Aside Decades of Special Counsel Rulings]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/jC6fU</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Richard M. Nixon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attorney general named a special counsel to investigate White House wrongdoing. So did President Ronald Reagan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attorney general. So did President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Would Change Supreme Court if Elected]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/15/trump-supreme-court-second-term/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a second term, Trump could make the Supreme Court's conservative tilt last for another generation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard's Claudine Gay Should Resign]]></title>
							<link>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/23/claudine-gay-harvard-resign-plagiarism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Evidence of plagiarism has cast a shadow over the university leader's integrity and qualifications.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Roberts Was Right to Castigate Chuck Schumer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/john-roberts-was-right-to-castigate-chuck-schumer/ar-BB10N1Pp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Trump had said what Schumer said about two Supreme Court justices, Democrats would be going crazy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Impeachment Feels a Lot Like Kavanaugh 2.0]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsvirginian.com/newsvirginian/marcus-impeachment-feels-a-lot-like-kavanaugh/article_aa406684-aa3b-550a-a20a-50456cd802c4.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If, like me, all you've done for the past year is research and write a book about Justice]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Matthew Whitaker Is a Crackpot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/09/matthew_whitaker_is_a_crackpot_138613.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- The acting attorney general of the United States is a crackpot.
Matthew Whitaker, installed in the job by President Trump to replace Jeff Sessions, was asked in 2014, during an ill-fated run in the Republican senatorial primary in Iowa, about the worst decisions in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Matthew Whitaker Is the Wrong Choice to Replace Jeff Sessions -- at Exactly the Wrong Time]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/08/why_matthew_whitaker_is_the_wrong_choice_to_replace_jeff_sessions_--_at_exactly_the_wrong_time_138595.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Matthew Whitaker, President Trump's handpicked selection to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, is the wrong choice for the job at exactly the wrong time.
Of course, from Trump's point of view, that is the point. He ousts Sessions, whose alleged disloyalty Trump has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Stoked the Fears of the Bowerses Among Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/29/trump_has_stoked_the_fears_of_the_bowerses_among_us_138486.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The important thing to understand about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is that the alleged killer did not merely hate us Jews for who we are. He hated us, judging by his social media postings, for what we believe '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' for the highest ideals of what the Jewish religion...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Thinks Calling Someone a 'Baby' Is the Ultimate Insult]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/22/trump_thinks_calling_someone_a_baby_is_the_ultimate_insult_138424.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Listening to President Trump recently, the question arises: What's he got against babies?
"I'm not a baby," Trump felt compelled to assure CBS News' Lesley Stahl -- twice -- during his 60 Minutes interview.
First, on the subject of Kim Jong Un, when Stahl described his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Never Fails to Infuriate, Clinton Consistently Disappoints]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/19/if_trump_never_fails_to_infuriate_clinton_consistently_disappoints_138407.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Between the man who is president and the woman who ran against him, there is, for me, no contest; Hillary Clinton would have been a far better president than Donald Trump. But both Trump and Clinton, in their own trademark ways, stepped in it again this week when it comes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Perception of Partisanship Poisons the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/07/a_perception_of_partisanship_poisons_the_supreme_court_138278.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- "The Supreme Court must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution," Brett Kavanaugh observed at the start of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
That was September 4, just over a month ago, but it feels like an eternity -- before the country was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's Honesty Goes to the Core of His Fitness]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/03/kavanaughs_honesty_goes_to_the_core_of_his_fitness_138235.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Does it matter how many beers Brett Kavanaugh drank in high school or college? Do we care what he wrote in his high school yearbook? Ordinarily, of course not. But as the evidence unspools, such otherwise trivial questions take on increasing importance -- not because of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is a Week's Delay Compared to a Lifetime on the Supreme Court?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/30/what_is_a_weeks_delay_compared_to_a_lifetime_on_the_supreme_court_138206.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An appalling, divisive week came to a better close with the last-minute, still-evolving plan to reopen the background investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh.
It's a commentary on our tribal times that it took the 11th-hour intervention of Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony Was Devastating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kavanaugh-may-have-laughed-at-ford-years-ago-hes-not-laughing-now/2018/09/27/9b9faac4-c280-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.8c6a88237b07</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have built my professional career on words, and the capacity of words to convey information and argument. But Thursday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s session reaffirmed the unrivaled and compelling power of personal testimony, not only in providing information but also in assessing competing narratives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Been 27 Years Since Anita Hill. Have We Learned Nothing?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/23/its_been_27_years_since_anita_hill_have_we_learned_nothing_138143.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Anita Hill's truthfulness was brutally questioned. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., accused her of "flat-out perjury." So was her sanity. I recall a fevered phone call from a White House adviser peddling the notion that Hill suffered from "erotomania," a psychiatric disorder...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Know Who Kavanaugh's Accuser Is. What Should Happen Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/18/we_know_who_kavanaughs_accuser_is_what_should_happen_now_138093.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- So what should happen now that the woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her has come -- or, rather, has been dragged -- forward?
The first part is easy: There must be a full investigation, beginning with FBI interviews of both...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Measure of American Resilience: Can We Rediscover Our Capacity to Forge Consensus?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/16/a_measure_of_american_resilience_can_we_rediscover_our_capacity_to_forge_consensus_138080.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Does the United States enjoy a resilience advantage compared to European democracies? During the long months of the Trump administration, I have been clinging, if with diminishing fortitude, to the conviction that our constitutional system and democratic institutions will...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Should Not Decide Any Cases Concerning Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/09/kavanaugh_should_not_decide_any_cases_concerning_trump_138024.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Under the unusual circumstances surrounding his selection, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should have agreed to recuse himself from deciding cases involving the investigation of President Trump. The reason Kavanaugh asserted at his confirmation hearing for refusing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh's Hearing Will Be an Interview on Behalf of the American People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/09/02/kavanaughs_hearing_will_be_an_interview_on_behalf_of_the_american_people_137961.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Another Supreme Court nomination hearing is about to begin, so brace yourself for talk of kabuki -- as in then-Sen. Joe Biden's 2005 formulation during the confirmation hearings for Chief Justice John Roberts, "this kabuki dance." Or, in the tart assessment a decade...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Mueller Knows About Manafort Might Explain Trump's Growing Agitation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/12/what_mueller_knows_about_manafort_might_explain_trumps_growing_agitation_137785.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ruth Marcus</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Winston Churchill famously described Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." The same might be said -- and the Russia reference is no coincidence -- of Paul Manafort and the trial now underway of President Trump's former campaign chairman.
The riddle, of...]]></description>
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