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<title><![CDATA[John Eastman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18568.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Eastman]]></description><category domain="18568">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[What SCOTUS Got Wrong on Birthright Citizenship]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/1776-not-1608-what-the-supreme-court-got-wrong-on-birthright-citizenship/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The issue isn't whether America inherited English legal language; it's whether it inherited England's understanding of political membership.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We're Seeing Is Much Bigger Than My Bar License]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/04/16/eastman_were_seeing_a_marxist_capture_of_our_institutions_then_weaponizing_them_to_destroy_political_opposition.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claremont Institute senior fellow and former constitutional attorney John Eastman appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast and said that his disbarment case in California was politically motivated and part of what he describes as a broader left-wing takeover of American institutions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Roberts Got It Wrong on Tariffs, Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-tariff-wears-two-hats-what-scotus-doesnt-understand/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They've never previously applied the major questions doctrine in the foreign policy arena'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and for good reason.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Supreme Court Term Could Be Consequential]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/a-constitutional-turning-point/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court began its November sitting this week in what is already shaping up to be a blockbuster term.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Facts Seem Pretty Clear in Comey Indictment]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/opinion/comey-indictment-is-the-beginning-of-holding-corrupt-officials-accountable/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Insurers Covering Up Wide-Scale Medicaid Fraud]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/insurers-are-covering-up-wide-scale-medicaid-fraud/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Billions can be recovered for taxpayers, premiums reduced, and Medicaid costs contained'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'all without hurting enrollees.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Confusion]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/supreme-confusion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just as an erroneous view of birthright citizenship has seeped into our political psyche, so too has an erroneous view of judicial supremacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship: Game On]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/salvo/birthright-citizenship-game-on/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 14th Amendment does not confer automatic citizenship.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cheapening of Felony's Sting]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/the-cheapening-of-felonys-sting/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The category of crime attributed to President Trump's name used to mean something.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Empire Strikes Back]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/the-empire-strikes-back-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors pick the person or target and then go searching for the crime. Trump supporters are the latest most glaring example of this inversion of justice, which if often called]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump: Enemy of the State]]></title>
							<link>https://tomklingenstein.com/donald-trump-enemy-of-the-state/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president's conviction is only possible in a system that rewards friends and punishes enemies, irrespective of the Constitution.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Needs to Stand Up to the Dems' Soviet Show Trials]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/08/john_eastman_republicans_need_to_stand_up_to_the_dems_soviet_show_trials.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claremont Institute Senior Fellow John Eastman likened the January 6th Committee to a Soviet show trial in an interview with Tucker Carlson.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the U.S. Restore Faith in Its Election System?]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/30/trying-to-prevent-illegal-conduct-from-deciding-an-election-is-not-endorsing-a-coup/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These and the numerous other election irregularities deserved'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and still deserve'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a full airing if the American people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s faith in our election system is ever to be restored.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems' Unrelenting Drive Against Trump Harms the Nation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/democrats-trump-presidency-constitution-eastman-yoo</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While Congress has a right to investigate the events leading to the terrible riot of Jan. 6, it does not have a right to override the constitutional prerogatives of an independent branch of government.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Beyond the Scope'?  Seriously?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/01/beyond_the_scope__seriously.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The much-touted testimony of Special Counsel Robert Mueller before the House judiciary and intelligence committees last week yielded little beyond what was already in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'confidential'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' report Mueller submitted to the attorney general (and that has largely been made public).'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alito's Strategic Vote Signals Reining In of 'Law by Regulation']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/25/alitos_strategic_vote_signals_reining_in_of_law_by_regulation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Article I, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution provides that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which means that legislative decisions have to be made by Congress and cannot be delegated to the other branches of government (and certainly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Should Replace Sessions with Janice Rogers Brown]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/yes-president-trump-replace-jeff-sessions-janice-rogers-brown/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why the former California Supreme Court justice and D.C. circuit judge would be a natural choice in the Trump administration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revoking Birthright Citizenship Would Enforce Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2018/10/30/revoking-birthright-citizenship-would-enforce-the-constitution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s comments are not even set to air until this weekend, but already they have created a firestorm of commentary, most of it ill-informed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senator Cruz Is Eligible--Arguments to the Contrary Are Just Proof That the Silly Season Is Fully Upon Us]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/01/14/senator_cruz_is_eligible_129321.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every four years, as the Presidential campaigns start kicking into high gear for the Iowa caucuses and early primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and beyond, and as some partisans start feeling desperate about their candidate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prospects, we see of flurry of half-truths,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Dishonest Executive Power Grab]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/225412-congress-has-options-to-answer-obamas-dishonest-executive</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s statement on November 20, 2014 contained several outright falsehoods. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' More significantly, masked behind the discussion over prosecutorial discretion is a flagrant violation of the Constitution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s core separation of powers principle that Congress, not the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Fetuses Do Feel Pain?]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/what-if-fetuses-do-feel-pain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has in recent years taken great pains to require that execution of criminals who have committed the most heinous of crimes be done as painlessly as possible. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' In almost every State that continues to utilize the death penalty as the ultimate punishment, a dose of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's IRS Committed Political Sabotage]]></title>
							<link>http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2163089</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Eastman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world is learning about the corruption of the IRS in targeting conservative groups, including various Tea Party organizations, for heightened scrutiny. But the corruption goes much deeper than harassing groups seeking first time non-profit designations, into actively sabotaging...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Flags of Caution Over Sotomayor]]></title>
							<link>http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0527/p09s03-coop.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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