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<title><![CDATA[Mark Joseph Stern - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/32320.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Joseph Stern]]></description><category domain="32320">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Court's 5-4 Vote in Birthright Citizenship Case Is a Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-scandal-brett-kavanaugh.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is nothing short of stunning that Trump came one vote away from persuading the court to repeal the bedrock of the Reconstruction Amendments.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hidden Danger of Supreme Court's Trans Rights Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-hidden-danger-of-the-supreme-court-s-new-trans-rights-case/ar-AA1veLLk</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday in Skrmetti v. U.S.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alabama Discovers Dangers of Defying the Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/alabama-defying-supreme-court-gerrymandering-whoops.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alabama Republicans' brash defiance of the Supreme Court hit a wall on Tuesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court&rsquo;s Ethics Issues Not All Created Equal]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/supreme-court-ethics-hearing-one-lesson.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not all the justices' ethics violations are the same.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Lawless Ruling Against the Abortion Pill]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-medication-abortion-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This unprecedented abuse of judicial power with no basis in law or fact will soon force the Supreme Court's hand.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden Stabbed D.C. in the Back]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-biden-stabbed-dc-in-the-back/ar-AA18c1Y5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[D.C.'s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Right-Wing Attack on Internet Fizzles at Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/brett-kavanaugh-google-case-scotus-section-230.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gonzalez will not be the case to challenge the consensus understanding of Section 230.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Suit Against Biden's Student Loan Relief Is Doomed]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/lawsuit-student-debt-relief-biden.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A witless scheme to get a foothold in federal court quickly collapsed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Red States Plan to Outlaw Abortion in America]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/04/abortion-bans-out-of-state-missouri-texas-oklahoma.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republican-led legislatures are already developing schemes to punish patients and providers around the country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Doesn't Care That You Hate It]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/gop-doesnt-care-that-you-hate-it.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The project it is engaged with now is about power not popularity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Will Never Confirm Another Dem-Appointed Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/mcconnell-biden-breyer-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans probably won't confirm a Democrat's appeals court nominees, either.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[High Court's Death Penalty Decision Cruel &amp; Indefensible]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-federal-execution-daniel-lee.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The five conservative justices abdicated their duty to ensure that executions comply with the Constitution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roberts Just Bulldozed the Wall Separating Church &amp; State]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-espinoza-montana-religious-schools.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His stunning 5'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'4 decision forces states to fund religious schools'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and augurs even more radical rulings down the road.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judge's Opinion Letting Flynn Off the Hook Is Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/michael-flynn-neomi-rao-trump-barr-sullivan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rao has made the D.C. Circuit complicit in Trump's corruption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Devastating Impact on the Courts]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/fifth-circuit-trump-judges-devastating.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[2019 was an experiment in extreme right-wing jurisprudence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Is Preparing to Devastate Abortion Rights]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-roe-v-wade.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's no other reason for the justices to take up the Louisiana abortion case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Will Shred Its Credibility to Let Trump Rig Census]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/supreme-court-census-case-citizenship-question.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration should have no legal authority to wreak this havoc.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don McGahn Has Not Turned on Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/mueller-investigation-don-mcgahn-has-not-turned-on-trump.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House counsel has figured out how to appear transparent without giving Mueller the information he needs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Roe Goes Down, Women Will Be Punished]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/07/misoprostol-and-roe-v-wade-abortion-is-increasingly-something-a-woman-can-do-to-herself.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There will be no way to oppose abortion without supporting the prosecution of those who terminate their pregnancies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Elena Kagan Is Up to Something]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/elena-kagans-ruling-in-lucia-v-sec-reveals-her-long-term-supreme-court-strategy.html?via=homepage_taps_top</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the liberal justice drifting to the right, or is she playing the long game with her conservative colleagues?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defenseless: Trump Lawyers Are No Match for Mueller]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/jay-sekulow-michael-cohen-and-the-rest-of-trumps-legal-team-are-no-match-for-robert-mueller.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has no real lawyers. Or, to put it more precisely, he has no lawyers capable of representing him as he navigates Robert Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ever more perilous Russia probe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch's First Amendment Theory Could Sabotage Civil Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/12/neil_gorsuch_s_radical_first_amendment_theory_could_sabotage_civil_rights.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The cake is just the beginning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Judges Will Transform America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/09/trump_is_laying_the_groundwork_to_overturn_marriage_equality.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If these nominees are not too extreme for Senate Republicans, it isn't clear who would be.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Clarence Thomas Takeover]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/clarence-thomas-legal-vision-is-becoming-a-trump-era-reality.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The justice has spent his career pushing a fringy, right-wing ideology. Now, he has an army of acolytes who can make his vision a reality.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Is Coming for Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/06/robert_mueller_s_probe_will_reveal_loads_of_dirt_from_trump_s_financial.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What you don't know can hurt you very badly, and there is a great deal that Republicans do not know about Donald Trump. From shady business dealings to ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch Is Not a Villain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/neil_gorsuch_is_not_a_villain.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, is a brilliant, witty, handsome, eloquent, perfectly pedigreed judge. He is, to put it another way, ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Khizr Khan Helped Democrats Take Back Religious Liberty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/07/29/khizr_khan_helped_democrats_take_back_religious_liberty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Khizr Khan, a Muslim immigrant whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, brought the Democratic National Convention to tears and raucous applause on ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Right to Safety Outweighs Your Right to Own a Gun]]></title>
							<link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/12/gun_violence_and_child_labor_are_not_the_price_of_liberty.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Joseph Stern</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only reason you have not been shot is because nobody has yet decided to shoot you. Our patchwork of mostly loose state gun laws, combined with weak federal standards, ensures that anybody who wants a firearm can obtain one. Once acquired, this gun can easily be used to put a bullet...]]></description>
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