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<title><![CDATA[David Rivkin - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31099.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Rivkin]]></description><category domain="31099">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Time for the Government To Regulate AI]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/08/its_time_for_the_government_to_regulate_ai_154103.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett revealed that the White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would regulate and evaluate AI models similar to how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) evaluates new food and drugs.
This is a good idea that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris and Schumer Target the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/harris-and-schumer-target-supreme-court-2024-election-destroy-judicial-independence-3ca50d5b?st=kfh4uli61e8in6a</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats make clear that if they win, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll push measures to destroy the judiciary'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s independence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Depends on Presidential Immunity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-depends-on-presidential-immunity-supreme-court-decision-trump-charges-c163ae81?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Monday rendered the most important defense of separation of powers in its history.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Alito's First Amendment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-alito-view-of-first-amendment-aclu-offensive-speech-political-c760fe06?mod=opinion_lead_pos6</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He's unusually willing to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' accept limits on outr'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';' speech'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but on core political speech, he's stronger than the ACLU.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alito, the Supreme Court's Plain-Spoken Defender]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/samuel-alito-the-supreme-courts-plain-spoken-defender-precedent-ethics-originalism-5e3e9a7?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He has emerged as an important justice with a distinctive interpretive method that is pragmatic yet rooted in originalism and textualism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Alito: 'This Made Us Targets of Assassination']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-samuel-alito-this-made-us-targets-of-assassination-dobbs-leak-abortion-court-74624ef9?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The author of the Dobbs abortion ruling answers attacks on the court's 'legitimacy.' He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' says he thinks he knows who leaked the draft and is certain about the motive.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Warrant Had No Legal Basis]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-warrant-had-no-legal-basis-mar-a-lago-affidavit-presidential-records-act-archivist-custody-classified-fbi-garland-11661170684?st=u1qa5b6p7zfeuw1&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A former president's rights under the Presidential Records Act trump the statutes the FBI cited to justify the Mar-a-Lago raid.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Moore v. Harper and Marc Elias's Curious Idea of 'Democracy']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/marc-elias-curious-idea-of-democracy-moore-v-harper-court-state-judges-election-law-gerrymandering-legislature-11659380162?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democratic lawyers seek to hijack elections via state judges. The Supreme Court has a chance to stop them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Quandary Buttresses Court's Answer on Energy]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/596569-europes-quandary-buttresses-the-supreme-courts-answer-to-major-questions-on</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fight against executive overreach and the relentless progressive campaign against U.S. energy security couldn't be more important.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Look at Ketanji Brown Jackson's Judicial Record]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/ketanji-brown-jackson-judicial-record-supreme-court-nominee-public-defender-dc-circuit-biden-11646001770?st=w39t202lyai7lab&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Her opinions are generally workmanlike, making it easy to discern the cases that inspired her passion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/05/28/a_letter_to_the_us_commission_on_international_religious_freedom__145839.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Dear Chair Bhargava, Vice Chair Perkins, and Commissioners Bauer, Carr, Davie, Maenza, Moore, and Turkel:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Prosecutor General of Finland has undertaken criminal prosecutions that will compel Finland'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s clergy and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unconstitutional Voting 'Reform']]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-unconstitutional-voting-reform-11613497134?mod=djemalertNEWS</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats want to impose federal rules on elections for president. Congress doesn't have that power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Claims of Russian Meddling Should Be Questioned]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/election-mirage-why-claims-russian-meddling-should-be-questioned-127992</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The winner in this deepening struggle between the White House and the intelligence world is not yet clear. But the loser is already evident: American national security.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Impeachment Subverts the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/this-impeachment-subverts-the-constitution/ar-AAJn6gw</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed committees investigating President Trump to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'proceed under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' but the House has never authorized such an inquiry.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[House Dems Have No Business Demanding Trump's Taxes]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/444231-demanding-trumps-tax-returns-is-congressional-overreach</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Ways and Means Committee's stated purpose of investigating how the IRS enforces tax laws against sitting presidents is an obvious pretext.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stop the Impeachment Fishing Expedition]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As William Barr begins his term as attorney general, House Democrats are aiming a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'subpoena cannon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' at President Trump, hoping to disable his presidency with investigations and possibly gather evidence to impeach him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rule of Law Prevails in the Travel-Ban Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rule-of-law-prevails-in-the-travel-ban-case-1530139894?shareToken=st4c41ff1d64f843d584a8992bf46b5c2b&amp;ref=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dissenters cite the views of former officials, a radical departure from American constitutional norms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller's Fruit of the Poisonous Tree]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/muellers-fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree-1529707087?shareToken=sta5126dacf25c47eda452638aad3dfbf7&amp;ref=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It makes no difference how honorable he is. His investigation is tainted by the bias that attended its origin in 2016.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FISA Abuses Are a Special Threat to Privacy and Due Process]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/fisa-abuses-are-a-special-threat-to-privacy-and-due-process-1519689446?shareToken=st6085bca01a0a4924b16bbd023eb20a3e&amp;reflink=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House Democratic surveillance memo is out, and it should worry Americans who care about privacy and due process.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can a President Obstruct Justice? Yes, But Trump Hasn't]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-a-president-obstruct-justice-1512938781?shareToken=st43b2cfc7e8824c63924afbbf9be20a7e&amp;reflink=article_email_share</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speculation about Special Counsel Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s investigation has turned toward obstruction of justice'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'specifically, whether President Trump can be criminally prosecuted for firing James Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or for earlier asking Mr. Comey...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Justices Lay Down the Law]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the travel-ban case, a high-court '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'compromise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' delivers a unanimous rebuke to political judges.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fourth Circuit Joins the 'Resistance']]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Another court has weighed in against President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive order temporarily limiting entry to the U.S. of aliens from six terrorist hotspot countries in Africa and the Middle East.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ninth Circuit Ignores Precedent, Threatens National Security]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/FFPnKl1aTL</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey write that under the Ninth Circuit's ruling, a state university could go to court on behalf of any alien, anywhere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Ways to Restore the Separation of Powers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Five+Ways+to+Restore+the+Separation+of+Powers&amp;oq=Five+Ways+to+Restore+the+Separation+of+Powers&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64j69i60.72j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t enough for Trump to quickly rescind Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s executive orders. Congress also needs to act.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Punishing Climate-Change Skeptics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Punishing+Climate-Change+Skeptics&amp;oq=Punishing+Climate-Change+Skeptics&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.93j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Galileo Galilei was tried in 1633 for spreading the heretical view that the Earth orbits the sun, convicted by the Roman Catholic Inquisition, and remained under house arrest until his death. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s inquisitors seek their quarry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s imprisonment and financial ruin. As the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Unlawful Plan to Overrule Voter-ID Laws]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Hillary%E2%80%99s+Unlawful+Plan+to+Overrule+Voter-ID+Laws&amp;oq=Hillary%E2%80%99s+Unlawful+Plan+to+Overrule+Voter-ID+Laws&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.96j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Rivkin</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Declaring that Republican-controlled states have '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'systematically and deliberately'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' tried to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'disempower and disenfranchise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' voters, Hillary Clinton has called for a sweeping expansion of federal involvement in elections.]]></description>
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