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<title><![CDATA[Adam Liptak - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17508.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Adam Liptak]]></description><category domain="17508">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Faces a Blockbuster Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/us/politics/supreme-court-new-term.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court, which is dominated by six Republican appointees, will confront a charged docket, including a case asking it to overrule Roe v. Wade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Justice Breyer May Resist Calls for His Retirement]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/justice-breyer-retirement.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent speech on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the peril of politics,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Justice Stephen G. Breyer said judges must renounce loyalty to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the political party that helped to secure their appointment.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ginsburg's Judicial Legacy Marked by Striking Dissents]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ginsburgs-judicial-legacy-marked-by-striking-dissents/ar-BB19c6Qh?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was a framed copy of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 on the wall of the chambers of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday. She counted the law among her proudest achievements, even as it illustrated her limited power. As part of the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In a Term Full of Major Cases, Supreme Court Tacked to Center]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/supreme-court-term.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/us/politics/obstruction-impeachable-offense.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1974 and 1998, articles of impeachment against Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton focused on the corrupt use of power to frustrate lawful investigations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Kavanaugh Would Transform the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/us/politics/judge-kavanaugh-supreme-court-justices.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Supreme Court appointments are in a way inconsequential. A conservative replaces a conservative, a liberal replaces a liberal, and the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s basic direction is unchanged.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/30/us/politics/first-amendment-conservatives-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the final day of the Supreme Court term last week, Justice Elena Kagan sounded an alarm.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Kennedy, Swing Vote on Supreme Court, Will Retire]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/anthony-kennedy-retire-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced on Wednesday that he would retire, setting the stage for a furious fight over the future direction of the Supreme Court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump to Nominate Slate of Conservative Federal Judges]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/trump-lower-court-nominees-conservatives.html?smid=pl-share</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Having filled a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is turning his attention to the more than 120 openings on the lower federal courts. On Monday, he will announce a slate of 10 nominees to those courts, a senior White House official said, the first in what could be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senate Confirms Gorsuch as Supreme Court Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fraying upper chamber.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Case Over Executive Order Seems Headed to Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/politics/appeals-court-trump-travel-ban.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals panel on Thursday unanimously rejected President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bid to reinstate his ban on travel into the United States from seven largely Muslim nations, a sweeping rebuke of the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s claim that the courts have no role as a check on the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Judge Neil Gorsuch, an Echo of Scalia in Philosophy and Style]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nominee.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was midway down a ski slope when his cellphone rang. Justice Antonin Scalia, he was told, had died. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I immediately lost what breath I had left,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Judge Gorsuch said in a speech two months later. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'And I am not embarrassed to admit that I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Scalia Wanted in His Successor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/us/politics/what-would-antonin-scalia-want-in-his-successor-a-dissent-offers-clues.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What sort of person would Justice Antonin Scalia have wanted President Obama to name as his successor? We know more than you might think.In a largely overlooked passage in his dissent from the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision in June establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, he left...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us/antonin-scalia-death.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Antonin Scalia, whose transformative legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a leader of a conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas, according to a statement from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas Borrows Others' Language]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/us/justice-clarence-thomas-rulings-studies.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Justice'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Clarence Thomas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has not asked a question'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' from the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bench since 2006. His majority opinions tend to be brisk, efficient and dutiful.Now, studies using linguistic software have discovered another Thomas trait: Those opinions contain language...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Court's Surprising Move Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/23/upshot/the-roberts-courts-surprising-move-leftward.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has been a conservative court. But even conservative courts have liberal terms '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('–').';' and the current term is leaning left as it enters its final two weeks.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justices Split on Health Law Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare-back-before-high-court-today/2015/03/03/6dff31a4-c1ec-11e4-9271-610273846239_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court justices split along ideological lines Wednesday in questioning during the latest legal battle over the Affordable Care Act, making the outcome difficult to predict.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who saved the act from a constitutional challenge three years ago, this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Activist Is the Supreme Court?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/sunday-review/how-activist-is-the-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[JUSTICES Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are ideological antagonists on the Supreme Court, but they agree on one thing. Their court is guilty of judicial activism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'If it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s measured in terms of readiness to overturn legislation, this is one of the most activist courts in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chief Justice Roberts Plays a Long Game]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/us/politics/roberts-plays-a-long-game.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Viewed in isolation, the Supreme Court term that just ended had elements of modesty. The court declined to do away with affirmative action, gave Congress another shot at salvaging the Voting Rights Act and refused to find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justices Send Affirmative Action Case to Lower Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/us/affirmative-action-decision.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The brief decision, issued eight months after the case was argued, was almost surely the product of intense negotation among the justices. The compromise they reached was at least a reprieve for affirmative action in higher education, and civil rights groups that had feared for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scorn and Withering Scorn for Roberts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/us/politics/scorn-and-withering-scorn-for-chief-justice-roberts.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The day after Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s four-member liberal wing to uphold the health care overhaul law, he appeared before a conference of judges and lawyers in Pennsylvania. A questioner wanted to know whether he was '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'going to Disney World.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Chief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/us/supreme-court-lets-health-law-largely-stand.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld most of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health care overhaul law, saying it was authorized by Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s power to levy taxes. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joining the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s four more liberal members.The decision was a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justices Ask If Health Law Is Viable Without Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/us/justices-ask-if-health-law-is-viable-without-mandate.html?hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' On the third and final day of Supreme Court arguments over President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s health care overhaul law, several justices on Wednesday indicated a reluctance to pick and choose among the law's other provisions should the requirement that most Americans have health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Questions From Justices Over Mandate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/us/hard-questions-from-conservative-justices-over-insurance-mandate.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('–').';' With the fate of President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s health care law hanging in the balance at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage of skeptical questions from four of the court'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s more conservative justices.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Can you create commerce in order to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Care Act to Be Signature Case for Roberts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/us/health-care-act-offers-roberts-a-signature-case.html?_r=1&amp;ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. takes his usual center seat on the Supreme Court bench on March 26, he will begin presiding over an extraordinary three days of arguments that will determine the fate of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sweeping health care law.The decision in the case,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Law Puts Focus on Limits of Federal Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/us/politics/health-law-debate-puts-focus-on-limit-of-federal-power.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the federal government can require people to purchase health insurance, what else can it force them to do? More to the point, what can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t the government compel citizens to do?Those questions have been the toughest ones for the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lawyers to answer in court...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomayor Guides Court's Liberal Wing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/us/politics/28bar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At her confirmation hearings last year, Sonia Sotomayor spent a lot of time assuring senators that empathy would play no part in her work on the Supreme Court.That was a sort of rebuke to President Obama, who had said that empathy was precisely the quality that separated legal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Court Shifts Right, Tipped by Kennedy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/us/01scotus.html?_r=1&amp;ref=politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Nudge, Shift or Shove the Supreme Court Left]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/weekinreview/01liptak.html?ref=weekinreview</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Liptak</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';' Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s liberal wing, likes to say that he has not moved to the left since he was appointed to the court by President Gerald R. Ford in 1975. It is the court, Justice Stevens says, that has moved to the right.
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