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<title><![CDATA[Damon Root - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15598.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Damon Root]]></description><category domain="15598">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Don't Underestimate Clarence Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2023/01/07/dont-underestimate-clarence-thomas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Thomas' footprints are all over the Court's recently concluded term.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Justice Stevens Shaped--and Misshaped--American Law]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/2019/07/17/how-justice-john-paul-stevens-shaped-and-misshaped-american-law/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In short, it's using the power of the state to punish his enemies and make the world the way he wants it to be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Kelo Debacle Turns 10]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/23/the-kelo-debacle-turns-10</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of the most destructive and appalling decisions of the modern era.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Supreme Court Cases to Watch in June]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/31/5-supreme-court-cases-to-watch-in-june</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's 2014-2015 term will soon reach its finale. By the end of June, when the justices depart for their summer break, the Court is expected to issue a series of blockbuster decisions, including rulings on gay marriage, death penalty drugs, and Obamacare. Here are five cases...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2014 a Lousy Year for Obama at Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/30/2014-was-a-lousy-year-for-obama-at-the-s</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The time has come to look back and review the highs and lows of the year that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rapidly coming to a close. How did things go at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014? Depends on who you ask. For President Barack Obama, 2014 clearly ranks as a year of defeat, disappointment, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dismal Year at the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2014/07/01/obamas-disappointing-year-at-scotus</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court went out with a bang on Monday, ending its 2013-2014 term with Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., in which the Court held that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated federal law by placing a substantial...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A History of Obama's Biggest Constitutional Flops]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/15/a-brief-history-of-obamas-biggest-consti</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Supreme Court oral argument in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning brought new attention to a recurring problem with the Obama administration. Despite his training as a former constitutional law lecturer, President Barack Obama continues to push dubious legal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor's Disappointing Memoir]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/15/sonia-sotomayors-disappointing-memoir</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May 2009, shortly after Justice David Souter announced his retirement from the Supreme Court but before President Barack Obama got around to announcing his replacement, The New Republic published an article entitled "The Case Against Sotomayor." Written by legal affairs editor Jeffrey...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Big Win for Property Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/04/federal-government-loses-big-in-supreme</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Court Reverses Montana's &quot;Citizens&quot; Violation]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/25/supreme-court-summarily-reverses-montana</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Damon W. Root '&#'.ord('|').';' June 25, 2012In December 2011 the Montana Supreme Court 
voted to upheld the state's 99-year-old ban on corporate
spending in political campaigns. Writing in dissent, Montana
Justice James C. Nelson chastised his colleagues for blatantly
ignoring the U.S. Supreme Court's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare on Trial]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/11/obamacare-on-trial</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama was all smiles when he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law at a special ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 23, 2010. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'With all the punditry, all of the lobbying, all of the game playing that passes for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare #FAIL: Day 3 at Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/28/obamacare-fail-day-3-at-the-supreme-cour</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA["If I was in the Obama administration, I would not be comfortable with how the last three days went."Reason's Damon Root was in attendance for the third and final day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which focused...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justices Raise Powerful Objections to Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/27/kennedy-and-roberts-raise-powerful-objec</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I walked into the U.S. Supreme Court early Tuesday morning expecting a knock-down, drag-out constitutional showdown over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s individual mandate, which requires all Americans to buy or secure health insurance. I did not leave...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop Smearing Federalism]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/10/stop-smearing-federalism</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the liberal Princeton historian Sean Wilentz published a widely quoted essay in The New Republic comparing the political opposition to President Barack Obama's health care act and other federalinitiatives to the racist secessionism of the Confederacy and JimCrow South....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Kagan Be a Friend to Economic Liberty?]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/25/filling-the-stevens-seat</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his statement  announcing the selection of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, President Barack Obama praised Stevens for his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mastery of the letter of the law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'keen understanding of its impact on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[David Souter, Jim Crow &amp; the Living Constitution]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/blog/2010/06/04/david-souter-jim-crow-and-the</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter gave  a big commencement speech last week at Harvard University where he criticized originalism"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'the school of thought that says the Constitution should be read according to its original public meaning"'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'for having "only a tenuous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kagan's Troubling Deference to Government Power]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/13/elena-kagan-on-free-speech-exe</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Damon Root</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking to reporters last month aboard Air Force One, PresidentBarack Obama dropped a strong hint about his plans to nominate SolicitorGeneral Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice JohnPaul Stevens. "It used to be that the notion of an activist judgewas somebody who...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Libertarians Should Worry About Sotomayor]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/news/show/133722.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Libertarianism Matters More Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>http://www.reason.com/news/show/130054.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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