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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Chipping Away at Obama's Remade Federal Courts]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/trump-is-chipping-away-at-obamas-remade-federal-courts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are remaking the federal courts in their own image,&rdquo; declared NPR&rsquo;s Nina Totenberg recently. Others agree: The administration&rsquo;s lower-court selections will change America &ldquo;for generations.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ObamaCare Slush Fund Pays For Nanny-State Lobbying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/07/obamacare_slush_fund_pays_for_nanny-state_lobbying_118715.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the Affordable Care Act creates an enormous, multi-billion-dollar slush fund &mdash; in the out years, it will raise $2 billion a year in perpetuity &mdash; for the federal government to spend on more or less anything that might &ldquo;improve health and help restrain...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Maryland Moves to Ban 'Cyberbullying']]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/09/maryland_moves_to_ban_cyberbullying_117852.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While the enactment of Gov. Martin O&rsquo;Malley&rsquo;s sweeping gun control package has gotten more coverage, the Maryland House and Senate have also just passed a bill directed at banning &ldquo;cyberbullying.&rdquo; [Capital Gazette, WJZ] The bill would, among other things, prohibit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The High Court's Marriage Jitters]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/28/the_high_courts_marriage_jitters_117703.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Can I filter out the gay marriage tweets?&rdquo; wrote one Hartford lawyer on Twitter. &ldquo;Coz like it&rsquo;s already legal here so I don&rsquo;t care.&rdquo;
I think he was kidding. But even if you live in a state like New York or Connecticut where gays can already get...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Soda Ban Ruling a Devastating Defeat for Mayor Bloomberg]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/12/soda_ban_ruling_a_devastating_defeat_for_mayor_bloomberg_117402.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the public irritation over New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg&rsquo;s high-handed attempt to ban large-size sugary drinks, most New Yorkers were expecting it to pass into effect Tuesday as planned. Although opponents had gone to court in an effort to block the measure, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Banzhaf's Boast: &quot;Undergrads Required to Lobby for Obama Policy&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/07/banzhafs_boast_undergrads_required_to_lobby_for_obama_policy_117332.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I normally resist the temptation to pay attention to George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf, given his reputation as a bit of a publicity chaser, but this Monday press release from him was enough to get me to forsake my usual practice:

Undergrads Required to Lobby for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Smears of Robert Bork]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/behind-smears</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s something you may not know about the 1987 battle that kept Robert Bork off the Supreme Court: Opponents pursued a whispering campaign against him on the grounds that he wasn&rsquo;t enough of a religious believer.Back then, many Democrats still held seats in the rural South,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Amen for Albany]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415451306860880.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADSecond</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those of us who support same-sex marriage and also consider ourselves to be right of center, there were special reasons to take satisfaction in last Friday's vote in Albany. New York expanded its marriage law not under court order but after deliberation by elected lawmakers with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Common Sense on Class Action Suits]]></title>
							<link>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20110622_Reining_in_frivolous_class-action_lawsuits.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Olson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the run-up to the Supreme Court's opinion this week in Wal-Mart v. Dukes,  the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals had given the go-ahead to a  lawsuit on behalf of a vast number of female Wal-Mart employees, each of  whom had supposedly suffered harm as a result of the giant...]]></description>
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