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<title><![CDATA[Richard Hasen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/22875.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Richard Hasen]]></description><category domain="22875">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Redistricting Ruling Creates a Tough Choice for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ms.now/opinion/supreme-court-redistricting-voting-rights-act-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats could spread out minority voters who are reliable supporters to help capture more seats. But doing so would reduce minority representation in the House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Danger of Trump's Phony Vote-by-Mail Executive Order]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/trump-phony-vote-mail-executive-order-legal-analysis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the chaos, not the cruelty, that's the point.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elon Musk's Trumpian Transformation]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-trump-twitter-censorship-questions-rcna175086</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if the worst does not come to pass, Musk is already hastening truth decay.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump's New York Criminal Trial? Meh]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-why-hard-muster-even-100059890.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump may not be convicted of a felony in the New York 'election interference' case, and if he is, it probably won't shake up the presidential race.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2016 Election Fraudster Might Be About To Face the Music]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/2016-election-fraudster-ricky-vaughn-conviction-appeal.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mackey is not arguing that his conduct in tricking voters out of their franchise is itself protected by the First Amendment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Should Move On. 2024 Comes Down to Turnout]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-past-time-to-quit-hoping-the-courts-are-going-to-stop-trump/ar-BB1jlx9b</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The latest decisions out of the Supreme Court, first on when to hear former President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s immunity appeal, then on how to deal with his Colorado ballot disqualification, have made one thing very clear:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Georgia May Beat Feds at Holding Trump Accountable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-why-georgia-might-beat-the-feds-at-holding-trump-accountable/ar-AA1eYz4M</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Fulton County, Ga., Donald Trump and others are widely expected to be indicted any day for attempting to illegally reverse Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s victory in that state in 2020. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s alleged interference includes his infamous call with Brad Raffensperger, Georgia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s secretary of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. v. Trump Is Most Important Case in Our Nation's History]]></title>
							<link>https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fslate.com%2Fnews-and-politics%2F2023%2F08%2Ftrump-trial-2024-historic-jack-smith-indictment.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hush money payments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to porn stars hidden as business expenses. Forget showing off'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' classified documents about Iran attack plans to visitors, and then'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ordering the pool guy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to erase the security tapes revealing that he was still holding onto documents that he had promised...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suppressing the Vote Spreads to Republican Mainstream]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/republican-effort-to-suppress-the-vote.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[They've been at it for a long time, and they're picking up steam.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Radicalism May Threaten Democracy Itself]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/supreme-court-radicalism-threatens-democracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[More and more the court is looking like no friend of democracy and just another partisan actor.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Only Way to Save American Democracy Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-only-way-to-save-american-democracy-now/ar-BB1cDZs9</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Things are going to get much worse if the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'who in two weeks will have united control of the federal government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'do not act quickly and decisively.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Legal Farce Is Having Tragic Results]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-election-courts.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is nothing funny about the Republican Party's multipronged attack on voting rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-needs-three-consecutive-hail-mary-passes/ar-BB1aUiNq</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Despite the clear math showing that Joe Biden has won the election, President Donald Trump has refused to concede. He has directed his legal team to keep on fighting to try to overturn the results of the election, including'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in a new 105-page federal-court filing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in Pennsylvania....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Strategy Has Trump on the Ropes]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/democrats-should-impeach-donald-trump-fast-ukraine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What Democrats need is a clean impeachment strategy laser-focused on the Ukraine allegations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Ukraine Gambit Could Be a Campaign Finance Crime]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/trump-ukraine-campaign-finance-crime.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mueller's decision not to enforce the law last time around is partly to blame for the president acting with total impunity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Stevens Checked the Supreme Court's Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/john-paul-stevens-supreme-court-conservative-votes.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is far from a perfect solution, but as Stevens taught, sometimes half a loaf is much better than none.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the House Democrats Could Save American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/nancy-pelosi-election-reform-bill-save-democracy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' first order of business as they took control of the 116th Congress was introducing H.R. 1, the colossal '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'For the People Act.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' This 571-page behemoth of a bill covering voting rights, campaign finance reform, ethics improvements, and more was a perfect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'Obama Did It Too' Defense Does Not Hold Water]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/trump-obama-campaign-finance-crime-tweets.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump may never face a criminal penalty or impeachment proceedings for violating campaign finance laws in alleged conspiracy with his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Justice Anthony Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement?]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/did-justice-anthony-kennedy-just-signal-his-retirement.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The depressing defeatism of Kennedy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s work this term indicates his time on the court could be coming to an end.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scalia's Legacy Stronger Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/scalias-legacy-is-stronger-than-ever.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the next few months, the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' crushing blow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to public sector unions, allow more'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' purges that remove eligible voters'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' from the rolls,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' limit anti-discrimination laws'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' protecting the LBGT community in the name of protecting religious freedom,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Speech in America Is Fast, Cheap &amp; Out of Control]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-cheap-speech-democracy-20170818-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some shifts in 1st Amendment doctrine seem desirable to assist citizens in ascertaining the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch Is the New Scalia, Just Like Trump Promised]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-gorsuch-scalia-20170627-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservatives will be able to count on Gorsuch's vote.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Could Be Court's Swing Vote in Future]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-roberts-swing-vote-20170410-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals should prepare for a more conservative future]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gorsuch Could Lead Court in Wrong Direction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/opinions/worry-about-gorsuch-hasen/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The prevailing attitude that putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court would restore balance after Scalia's death is just wrong, Richard L. Hasen says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Matthew Could Have Devastating Consequences for 2016]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/06/hurricane_matthew_could_have_devastating_consequences_for_the_election.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Hurricane Matthew is as devastating to Florida as forecasters have predicted, it could be a human tragedy costing people their lives, health, homes, ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turning the Tide on Voting Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/opinion/campaign-stops/turning-the-tide-on-voting-rights.html?ref=opinion&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;gwh=08A38A00309FF0198D537D116A56CE5B&amp;gwt=pay&amp;assetType=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has the tide against restrictive voting laws turned?In the last few weeks, voting rights groups, in some instances working with the Department of Justice, have posted a series of victories that seemed unlikely when their cases against these laws were first brought. The rights of hundreds...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause of Our Time]]></title>
							<link>http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/supreme-court-greatest-civil-rights-cause</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Roberts May Not Save Obamacare This Time]]></title>
							<link>http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/7172982-74/court-roberts-congress#axzz3JtKjMVNZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's surprising decision to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act once again has focused attention on Chief Justice John Roberts, who cast the deciding vote in a 2012 decision that saved ObamaCare from being declared unconstitutional.Many court watchers expect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clues to Roberts' Thinking on Obamacare Case]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-hasen-roberts-supreme-court-obamacare-20141113-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's surprising decision last week to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act has once again focused attention on Chief Justice John Roberts, who cast the deciding vote in a 2012 decision that saved Obamacare from being declared unconstitutional. Many court...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voter Suppression's New Pretext]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/opinion/voter-suppressions-new-pretext.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Hasen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IT'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'S the latest fad among state officials looking to make voting harder: We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re not racist, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re just partisan.Some background: In June, the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, under which nine states and portions of others had to...]]></description>
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