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<title><![CDATA[Randy Barnett - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17012.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Randy Barnett]]></description><category domain="17012">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-right-on-birthright-citizenship-954ae377?st=tWd4Ha</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 14th Amendment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s authors would exclude illegal and visiting aliens from U.S. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'jurisdiction.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Challenge to Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://reason.com/volokh/2018/03/07/the-new-challenge-to-obamacare</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is this a chance for the Supreme Court to correct its constitutional mistake?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Two Questions for Donald Trump's Supreme Court Nominees]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Two+Questions+for+Donald+Trump%E2%80%99s+Supreme+Court+Nominees&amp;oq=Two+Questions+for+Donald+Trump%E2%80%99s+Supreme+Court+Nominees&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.63j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will they reconsider bad precedent? Or put the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'legitimacy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' first?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Ted &amp; Marco Can Save the GOP and the Country]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432261/ted-cruz-marco-rubio</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the past four years, there have been four conservative Tea Party senators who have, each in their own way, worked together for the good of the country: Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. Three of them decided to run for president. When Rand Paul asked me to help his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Ted Cruz Is a &quot;Natural Born Citizen&quot;]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/07/why-ted-cruz-is-a-natural-born-citizen/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Linking to this succinct but powerful essay'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by Paul Clement and my Georgetown colleague Neal Katyal, Jonathan usefully summarizes the legal argument for why Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American mother, is a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'natural born citizen'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' under Article II, section 1 of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fix the Filibuster, But Don't Get Rid of It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/fix-filibuster_1051191.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We hear endlessly these days from the left and the right that our political system is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'broken.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The left'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s principal complaint is that it is too hard to pass their desired legislation. Liberals pine for a parliamentary system, where the majority party in the legislature...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Supreme Court Justices]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/next-justices_1024728.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to the next president, he will be flanked by three, and almost four, octogenarians: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83), Antonin Scalia (80), Anthony Kennedy (80), and Stephen Breyer (77). The next president will likely have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How GOP Can Repeal and Replace Obamacare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/04/obamacare-king-burwell-supreme-court-repeal-alternative-republicans-column/19922353/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to four justices of the Supreme Court, there is now a clear path to repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act next year, finally bringing Obamacare to an end.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But Republicans won't accomplish this by waiting for the court or just voting to repeal the law one more time. The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blanket Seizures of Data Are Unconstitutional]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578593591276402574.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens. We've also learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Win for the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/randy-barnett-we-lost-on-health-care-but-the-constitution-won/2012/06/29/gJQAzJuJCW_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, which I advocated as a law professor before representing the National Federation of Independent Business as a lawyer, was about two huge things: saving the country from Obamacare and saving the Constitution for the country.On Thursday, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Can Not Mandate Purchases]]></title>
							<link>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/04/03/congress_has_no_power_to_mandate_purchases/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IMAGINE THAT I tell you 100 things that you may not do tomorrow. For example, you may not run on a treadmill, eat broccoli, buy a car, and 97 other things. While your liberty would certainly be restricted, there would still be an infinite number of things you may still do. Now suppose I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Insurance Mandate in Peril]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704446704575206502199257916.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A"tell" in poker is a subtle but detectable change in a player's behavior or demeanor that reveals clues about the player's assessment of his hand. Something similar has happened with regard to the insurance mandate at the core of last month's health reform legislation. Congress...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Seinfeld Hearings]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744026183929741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you suspect this week's Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor will be, like "Seinfeld," a show about nothing, you are probably right. To understand why, we need to revisit an era that remade how lawyers and the public think about law, and especially the Constitution.In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitution Means What It Says]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121452412614009067.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randy Barnett</author>
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