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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court Has Hit Rock Bottom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-hit-rock-bottom-100000563.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most recent term may be over, but its work on behalf of President Donald Trump continues. The justices announced on Wednesday evening in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Trump v. Boyle'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that they would stay a lower court order that had blocked Trump from firing the three Democratic appointees...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[KBJ's Heterodox Critiques of SCOTUS&rsquo; Right Wing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ketanji-brown-jackson-s-heterodox-critiques-of-scotus-s-right-wing/ar-AA1HTlov</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I noted that it often takes a few years for new members of the Supreme Court to get acclimated to the job. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is moving ahead of schedule. With the end of the term last month, she appears to have found her place on the court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Created the Biden Autopen Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/real-reason-trump-created-autopen-100000882.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Richard III seized the English throne toward the end of the Wars of the Roses, he pressured Parliament to legitimize his usurpation of the Crown from his nephews. Parliament responded by passing a law that accused the late Edward IV, Richard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s brother, and Edward'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s wife,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rightward Tremor That Shook California]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/news/rightward-tremor-shook-california-110000507.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Votes are still being counted, but it's looking like the Golden State will take a significant step away from the progressive policy ideas it has championed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Is Trump's Little Secret With Speaker Johnson?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/187780/trump-little-secret-mike-johnson</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former president has hinted that he's brewing up some kind of ominous plot with the Louisiana lawmaker.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If Trump Wins Again, There May Be No Stopping Him]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If a presidential candidate is telling you that he wants to end the republic, believe him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There'll Be No Escape for Bob Menendez This Time]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/175717/therell-no-escape-bob-menendez-time</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even the Supreme Court's lax bribery standards might not let him off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Big Story of the Supreme Court's Next Term]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/174452/supreme-courts-next-term-empower-judiciary</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The justices will have a chance to further disrupt the balance of power between the courts, Congress, and the White House.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Smearing the Bidens Like They Did Hillary Clinton]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/173811/republicans-smearing-bidens-like-hillary-clinton</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Their Hunter Biden probe is about muddying the president, not finding actual corruption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Clarence Thomas Keeps the Influence Machine Running]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/172495/clarence-thomas-crow-leo-money</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The justice has consistently ruled in ways that favor political favor-traders.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump's Lawsuit Against CNN Isn't Doomed]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/168023/trump-defamation-lawsuit-cnn-singhal</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Mar-a-Lago affair has taught us anything, it's that as long as Trump-appointed judges exist, all bets are off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court No Longer Immune to Political Violence]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/166817/supreme-court-protection-bill-passed</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bipartisan bill providing enhanced security for Supreme Court justices and their families marks the end of an era when they could move about Washington with relative anonymity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's June of Doom Is Upon Us]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/166678/supreme-court-roe-guns-epa</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican War on Local Government]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/165425/republican-war-local-government</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The GOP is increasingly backing the use of violent rhetoric against school and election officials.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Biden's Court Nominee Be the Next Great Dissenter?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/165397/supreme-court-dissent-biden-nominee</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The high court's next justice won't be on the winning side of many major cases. But even in defeat, she might sow the seeds for future victories.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Pivotal Year in the History of the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/164745/2022-supreme-court-cases-abortion-guns</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country we'll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days' time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nevada's Blue Wave]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/163564/nevada-blue-wave</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once reliably Republican, the state has suddenly become a laboratory of progressive experimentation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This the End of Roe v. Wade?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/163498/texas-abortion-rights-roe-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anti-abortion forces in Texas seem supremely confident that the Roberts court will be willing to administer the killing blow to reproductive rights in America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[You Have the Right to Keep Filming the Cops - for Now]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/163332/police-video-first-amendment-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court will take up a case that bundles concerns over qualified immunity with a consequential First Amendment dispute.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's DOJ Is Coming for You, Georgia Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/162858/merrick-garland-lawsuit-georgia-voter-suppression</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the administration's first major response to the Republicans' nationwide assault on elections.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our 250-Year Fight for Multiracial Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/162250/250-year-fight-majority-rule-multiracial-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We say we're for it. We've never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mystery of Merrick Garland]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/161909/mystery-merrick-garland-biden-attorney-general</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Biden's attorney general is neither an ideologue nor a partisan, but a consensus-builder. How will he wield his power in this historic, politically charged moment?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Dems' Court-Packing Plan Motivated by  Revenge?]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/162055/democrats-court-packing-judiciary-act-doesnt-make-sense</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bill to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices seems motivated by political revenge, not sensible judicial reform.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's One Constant Is a Fetish for Bloodshed]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/vb2pfD</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, armed white protesters bearing Confederate flags and semiautomatic rifles strode through the halls of Michigan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capitol building to challenge the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stay-at-home order.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Diversity Promises Are Identity Politics at Their Best]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156945/bidens-diversity-promises-identity-politics-best</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He has pledged to pick a woman for vice president and a black woman for the Supreme Court. That's not as unusual as it sounds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Conquest of the Justice Department Is Complete]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156548/trump-roger-stone-doj-barr-aaron-zelinsky</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's crony attorney general is bent on whitewashing the administration's misdeeds, forever scarring the department's integrity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Adam Schiff Summons the Damnation of History]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156440/adam-schiff-trump-impeachment-closing-argument</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a fiery speech, the California Democrat warned Republican senators that they'll never be able to say they weren't told about their president's corruption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Schiff's Case and the End of Implausible Deniability]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156303/adam-schiff-republicans-trump-impeachment</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican lawmakers have routinely dodged responsibility for the president's misdeeds by playing dumb. That path is no longer available.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Conservative Plot to Level the Administrative State]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/156207/plot-level-administrative-state</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's conservative majority could use an obscure legal doctrine to permanently kneecap the ability of progressives to govern.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Decade of Legal Warfare Has Warped America's Future]]></title>
							<link>https://newrepublic.com/article/155894/decade-legal-warfare-warped-americas-future</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Ford</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?]]></description>
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