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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court in the U.S. Constitutional Order]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/articles/2021/09/08/the_supreme_court_in_the_american_constitutional_order_793195.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This spring, President Biden appointed a 35-member'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, charged with soliciting expert views, deliberating among themselves, and reporting back to him on the subject of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'reforming'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s highest court....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, Fundamentally at Odds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/19/same-sex_marriage_and_religious_freedom_fundamentally_at_odds_118864.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent essays at Public Discourse, Mark Regnerus argued that same-sex marriage would harm marriage for everyone, and John Smoot argued that it would be bad for children in particular. Today I want to show the damage that redefining marriage does to religious freedom. At bottom, even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama, DOMA, and Constitutional Responsibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/01/obama_doma_and_constitutional_responsibility_109069.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign on February 10, 2007, in Springfield, Illinois, the hometown and burial place of Abraham Lincoln. In 2009, he chose to be sworn in with his hand on the same Bible used at Lincoln's first inauguration. He returned to Springfield a few weeks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Same-Sex Marriage and the Assault on Moral Reasoning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/06/same-sex_marriage_and_the_assault_on_moral_reasoning_106652.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is something of a consolation, albeit a small one, that the best arguments advocates for a constitutional "right" to same-sex marriage can muster are so transparently bad. Disconnected from nature, from history, from the canons of legal reasoning, and even from the standards of logic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Marriage and the Reign of Judges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/14/marriage_and_the_rein_of_judges_106307.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was grounded on a fear of judges  run amok. This past Thursday, federal district court judge Joseph Tauro  of Boston justified this fear when he struck down section 3 of the act  in two separate cases, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Founders' Understanding of the Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/08/the_founders_understanding_of_the_court_97349.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With confirmation hearings around the corner for Judge Sonia Sotomayor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination to the Supreme Court, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good time to take stock of some fundamental issues regarding the place of the Court in our political life. What should we expect of the justices as they perform...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Law, Feelings, and Religion at the Bar in Iowa]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/law_feelings_and_religion_at_t.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matthew Franck</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What happens when judicial arrogance becomes so habitual as to become second nature? This past Friday, April 3, the Supreme Court of Iowa provided an answer: judicial arrogance transforms into smug self-deception. This is not the question the court thought it was answering. It claimed to...]]></description>
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