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<title><![CDATA[Ilya Shapiro - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20866.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ilya Shapiro]]></description><category domain="20866">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Will Be Drawing Lots of Lines in the Term Ahead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/supreme-court-term-cases-arguments?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who gets to decide'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'states or the federal government? Parents or public officials? Religious institutions or administrators? Legislatures or courts?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Courting Disaster, Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/supreme-court-reform-democrats?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Seven years ago, I warned that Democrats were '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'courting disaster'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' by turning their frustration with the Supreme Court into a campaign to remake it. Their 2020 presidential field was talking about adding justices, limiting their terms, and otherwise changing the rules because...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Steak, No Sizzle: Samuel Alito Gets Down to Business]]></title>
							<link>https://freebeacon.com/culture/all-steak-no-sizzle-samuel-alito-gets-down-to-business/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' by Mollie Hemingway]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Issue of Birthright Citizenship Is Not Going Away]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2026/04/01/opinion/supreme-court-may-uphold-birthright-citizenship-but-issue-isnt-going-away/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Trump left the courtroom midway through the argument in the case challenging his birthright-citizenship executive order, he was signaling what all of us following the argument were f'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drawing a Legal Line on DEI Coercion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/diversity-training-dei-henderson-v-springfield-r-12-school-district-speech?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a late-December ruling, the Eighth Circuit set an example for challenging ideological bullying in public employment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can President Trump Fix Harvard?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/can-president-trump-fix-harvard</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harvard is plagued by a toxic culture, ideological corruption, and bureaucratic bloat and President Trump is trying to fix it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Should Restore the President's Executive Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/supreme-court-trump-firings-executive-branch-power?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Legal challenges to Trump's firings open the door for a shift in the Court's jurisprudence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What To Do When You're Canceled]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/what-to-do-when-youre-canceled</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It can happen to anyone. A bad tweet, viral video, or something you say (or text, post, e-mail, or Slack) gets blown out of proportion. Then comes a public pile-on or an official investigation, followed by punishment or ostracism. Cancel culture'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the mob-like desire to punish...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Problem Remains]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-problem-remains</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Claudine Gay's departure doesn't fix what's wrong at Harvard or elsewhere: the illiberal takeover of higher education.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Censorship Policies Headed to High Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-courts-next-target-government-coercion-social-media-opinion-1824649</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As we turn from the phony war over judicial ethics to legal substance, social media regulation is about to take center stage.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Defeat Left-Wing Racialism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-to-defeat-left-wing-racialism</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The summer of 2020 was a watershed in American life. After George Floyd'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death in police custody and the ensuing season of rioting, major institutions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'from federal agencies to Fortune 100 companies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'hastily pledged themselves to the narrative of critical race theory, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College Board Has Handed Ron DeSantis a Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/revised-ap-african-american-studies-is-the-course-students-deserve/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The College Board refined its plans for the inaugural AP African American Studies course, stripping away much of its most controversial, ideology-based content.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Leaked the Dobbs Draft?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/who-leaked-dobbs-draft-opinion-1735727</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly four months have passed since the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson and we're no closer to knowing who did it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Folly of Democrats' Court-Packing Proposals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/the-folly-of-court-packing-proposals</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This renewed push for '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'court-packing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which can be defined neutrally as expanding the Court for political reasons'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'comes after a term that produced ruling after ruling that angered progressive politicians and activists. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Weeks after schoolchildren were massacred...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I Quit Georgetown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-quit-georgetown-11654479763?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The university didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t fire me, but it yielded to the progressive mob, abandoned free speech, and created a hostile environment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Leaker Must Pay]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/supreme-court-leaker-must-pay-ilya-shapiro</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly two weeks after Politico published Justice Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion in the term's big abortion case, we still don't know who the leaker is. That's unfortunate, to say the least, not because our tabloid curiosity hasn't been satisfied but because this is the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Voter Suppression Lie]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-voter-suppression-lie</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Busting the dangerous 'Jim Crow' myths around Georgia's new election law.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Barrett Hearings Show Dems' Indifference to the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/opinions/amy-coney-barrett-hearings-republicans-democrats-shapiro/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three days of hearings didn't change any senators' mind on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, writes Ilya Shapiro. But there was refreshing clarity on the parties' divergent judicial philosophies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Brilliance Lives Loudly Within Amy Barrett]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-brilliance-lives-loudly-within-her</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amy Coney Barrett has the potential to be an intellectual leader on the Supreme Court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court Is Poised to Strike Down a Major Obama-Era Agency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/the-supreme-court-is-poised-to-strike-down-a-major-obama-era-agency/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concentrates power in the hands of a single, unelected, unaccountable official.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for Trump to Update His Supreme Court Short List]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/its-time-for-trump-to-update-his-supreme-court-short-list/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It would be both smart politics and good governance to update the list of Supreme Court contenders. When a vacancy emerges, who will be considered?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Administrative Law Rollback--Court Begins Draining Swamp]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/28/administrative-law-rollback-supreme-court-begins-drain-swamp/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Executive agencies are on notice that it's no longer 'anything goes' when they rewrite their rules, that judges will hold their feet to the statutory fire.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Has Made a Selection That Should Be Praised--Bigly]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/trump-makes-a-shrewd-political-move-with-supreme-court-pick/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By picking Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee, President Trump showed that credentials and connections still matter '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' when backed up by results.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Court Term for the Ages Signals Start of a New Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-supreme-court-term-for-the-ages-signals-the-start-of-a-new-era</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In short, October term 2017, while it rolled out in fits and starts, ended up giving a lot to conservatives and libertarians. But we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re just getting started.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Restoring the Constitutional Order With Court Picks]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/trump-really-is-restoring-the-constitutional-order-with-his-court-picks/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the political world obsesses over the latest sexual-harassment scandals and policy wonks scrutinize the latest tax-reform proposal, the Trump administration is quietly restoring constitutional governance. Although Congress has been unable to pass legislation and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' President Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Judicial Nominees, Trump Keeps on Winning]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/on-judicial-nominees-trump-just-keeps-on-winning/article/2635988</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump hit another judicial home run with his 5th Circuit nominees today. Don Willett and Jim Ho are tremendously experienced and qualified lawyers and public servants whose intellect and legal skills are matched only by their integrity and commitment to the rule of law. I have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taking On Affirmative Action's Institutional Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/04/justice-dept-goes-after-affirmative-actions-institutional-racism-column/536160001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who could have predicted that one of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s projects would be to root out institutional racism? Yet that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the upshot of an internal memo which apparently launches a push to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' review university admissions policies'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for race-based discrimination. The memo is still...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's First Slate of Lower-Court Judges Is Big League]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-first-slate-of-lower-court-judges-is-big-league/article/2622412</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With this excellent slate, Trump continues fulfilling his campaign promise '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? perhaps his most important one, in terms of securing the Republ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Have Zero Leverage After Gorsuch]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/opinions/how-we-got-to-gorsuch-shapiro/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' choice to filibuster the Supreme Court confirmation was predictable, says Ilya Shapiro, but it leaves them ill-equipped to stop a nominee if a second vacancy opens up under Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch Is a Jurisprudential Rock Star]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/opinions/gorsuch-is-a-republicans-rock-star-opinion/index.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/opinions/gorsuch-is-a-republicans-rock-star-opinion/index.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ilya Shapiro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch is a singularly fascinating pick for the current Supreme Court. That may be a strange thing to say about a federal judge who graduated from Harvard Law School, like all the other justices. (Except those who went to Yale, and Elena Kagan, who was solicitor general'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the...]]></description>
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