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<title><![CDATA[Josh Blackman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31731.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Josh Blackman]]></description><category domain="31731">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[End Is Near for the American Bar Association]]></title>
							<link>https://www.civitasoutlook.com/research/the-end-is-near-for-the-american-bar-association-61e88382-6ec2-49fa-a6e0-44ea3b0d0f7b</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Instead of serving as a trade group for lawyers, the ABA became just another left-wing advocacy group.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strictly Ballroom: Justice Kavanaugh Defeats Roberts]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/31/strictly-ballroom-justice-kavanaugh-defeats-chief-justice-roberts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I often write that my favorite writings by Chief Justice Roberts are when he's in dissent. These are the rare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Reverses Inferior Court Supremacy in Alabama]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/volokh/2026/06/03/the-supreme-court-reverses-inferior-court-supremacy-in-alabama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Late Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court granted Alabama's emergency motion to revise its legislative maps following'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Callais. The per curiam opinion'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Fight Won't End Well for the Courts]]></title>
							<link>https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/23/luttig-a-rebuke-from-the-nations-highest-court-could-well-cripple-mr-trumps-presidency-and-tarnish-his-legacy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former-Judge Luttig wrote a guest essay in the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Times, titled "It's Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won't End Well for Trump." The essay concludes with these two paragraphs:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh and Barrett Cave on Texas Abortion Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/in-texas-abortion-case-kavanaugh-and-barrett-caved-to-judicial-supremacy-opinion/ar-AAQez0W</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two challenges to S.B. 8, Texas' new abortion law. The "fetal heartbeat" statute allows private citizens to sue those who perform, aid or abet abortions. The government itself is expressly barred from enforcing the law. Texas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Covid Vaccine Mandate Is Likely Illegal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-s-vaccine-mandate-is-counterproductive-and-likely-illegal-opinion/ar-AAOo0EP</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With the stroke of a pen, the Biden administration will impose a vaccine mandate on 100 million Americans. Soon, workers from coast to coast will be faced with a choice: get jabbed, undergo weekly testing at their own cost or lose their job.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Could Not 'Block' TX Fetal Heartbeat Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-supreme-court-could-not-block-texas-fetal-heartbeat-law-opinion/ar-AAO3LVE</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the U.S.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' declined to intervene in a challenge to S.B. 8, Texas' new abortion law. This unique statute empowers private citizens to sue those who perform or facilitate abortions. President Biden ripped the 5-4 decision, charging that the conservative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Justices Worried About Kavanaugh, Barrett]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/conservative-justices-warn-kavanaugh-and-barrett-lack-fortitude-opinion/ar-AALPHMQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the first time in a generation, there are six conservative justices on the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Supreme Court. In time, this sextet will incrementally push the Court to the right. Yet, three of them are already sounding an alarm. Twice this term, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Acts Like a Politician. That's Not Impeachable]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/trump-acts-like-a-politician-thats-not-an-impeachable-offense/ar-BBZfDx6?li=AAggNb9</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The way things look, President Trump will almost certainly not be removed from office. The precedents set by the articles of impeachment, however, will endure far longer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Went Up to the Line That Sotomayor Crossed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/presidential-name-dropping-supreme-court/585448/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court justices should resist the urge to refer to presidents by name.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Ludicrous Ruling That Trump Can't End DACA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455305/daca-court-ruling-trump-cant-end-daca</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In January 20, 2017, the executive power peacefully transitioned from President Obama to President Trump. At least one judge in San Francisco didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t get the memo. Yesterday, Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to keep its predecessor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Deferred Action for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Trump Restoring Separation of Powers?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/453896/donald-trump-separation-powers-solid-job</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Trump administration follows through on its promises, there will be a sea change in how the administrative state functions ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Talks, Schneiderman Sues]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judges can'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t override the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s authority on '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Dreamers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' just because he says offensive things.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Next Supreme Court Justices]]></title>
							<link>http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/next-justices_1024728.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Blackman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to the next president, he will be flanked by three, and almost four, octogenarians: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83), Antonin Scalia (80), Anthony Kennedy (80), and Stephen Breyer (77). The next president will likely have...]]></description>
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