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							<title><![CDATA[Are Detroit's Most Terrible Schools Unconstitutional?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At one Detroit school, just 4 percent of third graders scored proficient on Michigan&rsquo;s English assessment test. At another, 9.5 percent did. Those students are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed last month that asserts that children have a federal constitutional right to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abortion and the 2016 Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/abortion-and-the-2016-ele_b_12481542.html?</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I attended Personal PAC's annual luncheon in Chicago. The main speaker was Gloria Steinem and more than 1,400 women and men were present a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court and the Republican Coup D'etat]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated John Roberts to succeed Justice Sandra Day O&rsquo;Connor. At this time, Justice O&rsquo;Connor was the Court&rsquo;s pivotal &ldquo;swing&rdquo; Justice. In many of the Court&rsquo;s most important cases, she cast the deciding vote. Moreover,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Academic Freedom Under Siege]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six weeks ago, Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro wrote a fine op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he offered a ringing endorsement of academic freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Same-Sex Marriage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/03/justice-kennedy-opened-the-door-to-same-sex-marriage-will-he-walk-through-next.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit this week held unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriage. This was the twenty-ninth consecutive judicial decision in the past 12 months holding that such are laws unconstitutional. This is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Threats and the Debt Ceiling]]></title>
							<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/by-any-means-possible_b_910493.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A threat is an expression of intention to inflict harm on others  unless the target of the threat agrees to do what the person making the  threat demands. A threat uses coercion rather than persuasion to effect  change. As a general rule, democratic governments do not negotiate with ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Shield Bill a Clear Danger to Free Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/opinion/04stone.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE so-called Shield bill, which was recently introduced in both houses of Congress in response to the WikiLeaks disclosures, would amend the Espionage Act of 1917 to make it a crime for any person knowingly and willfully to disseminate, &ldquo;in any manner prejudicial to the safety or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Misleading Conservative Myths on Judges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/opinion/14stone.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Geoffrey Stone</author>
							<description><![CDATA[AS the Senate awaits  the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice, a frank  discussion is needed on the proper role of judges in our constitutional system. For  30 years, conservative commentators have persuaded the public  that conservative judges apply the law, whereas liberal judges...]]></description>
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