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<title><![CDATA[Mark Paoletta - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/32564.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Paoletta]]></description><category domain="32564">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Arch Completes Longstanding National Aspiration]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/05/trumps-triumphal-arch-completes-a-longstanding-national-aspiration/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Policy makers have neglected for more than 100 years to build an arch on this circle to honor our nation and its veterans.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Senator Whitehouse's Disgraceful Smear of Russ Vought]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/MarkPaoletta/status/1929291045440778626</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senator Whitehouse smears my friend &amp; colleague Russ'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Vought when Whitehouse &amp; wife are longtime members of ALL-WHITE Bailey'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Beach Club in Newport, RI. Whitehouse says these clubs are a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'long tradition in Rhode Island.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s despicable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Democrats' Assault on the Court Ends in Defeat]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/07/democrats-ethics-smears-against-thomas-and-alito-are-so-embarrassing-they-buried-their-own-report/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Democrats' entire assault on the court, and especially on Justices Thomas and Alito, has ended in utter defeat.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Roll Call Leaves Out About Presidents Impounding Funds]]></title>
							<link>https://x.com/MarkPaoletta/status/1867586814946820518</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidents have impounded billions of dollars of funds, EVEN with appropriations language that MANDATED that it be spent on certain projects.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Samuel Alito, His Wife, and the Ginsburg Standard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/mrs-alito-and-the-ginsburg-standard-supreme-court-judicial-ethics-38108cf9?mod=opinion_lead_pos5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The late justice didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t recuse herself after expressing her own political opinions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Thomas Smears Reveal Partisan Double Standard]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/28/propublica-smear-of-justice-thomas-reveals-a-partisan-double-standard-for-scotus/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why is the left inventing a new recusal standard for Justice Thomas that didn't apply to other justices, particularly to Ginsburg?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What ProPublica's Latest Hit Piece Gets Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-propublicas-latest-hit-piece-gets-wrong-justice-clarence-thomas-supreme-court-accusation-misinformation-truth-yacht-70292e84?mod=opinion_lead_pos10</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Among other errors, it wrongly places Clarence Thomas in the Bahamas and overestimates the value of a football ticket by three orders of magnitude.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Welcome to the Far-Left Racket To Destroy Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/30/propublicas-smearing-of-conservative-justices-is-part-of-the-lefts-ploy-to-destroy-the-court/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ProPublica's 'reporter' and 'ethics officials' are funded by the same left-wing organizations with an agenda to radically reshape the court.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arguments Against Clarence Thomas Statue Fall Apart]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/22/all-georgia-democrats-angry-arguments-against-a-clarence-thomas-statue-fall-apart/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The state of Georgia should enthusiastically vote to erect a statue honoring Justice Clarence Thomas and his life of service.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jeffries Should Come Clean on Support for Antisemite]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hakeem-jeffries-needs-to-come-clean-on-his-support-for-a-notorious-antisemite/ar-AA17dbdU</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) attacked the Republican Party for removing Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee for her blatantly antisemitic public comments. But before attacking Republicans on this matter, Jeffries needs to own up to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas and the Nuns Who Inspired Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/15/why-i-think-of-clarence-thomas-and-the-nuns-who-inspired-him-each-mlk-day/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For many years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Justice Clarence Thomas visited an influential teacher, Sister Mary Virgilius Reidy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mark Stern's Smear of Clarence Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/on-mark-sterns-smear-of-clarence-thomas/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Court is moving back to its proper place in our constitutional structure. Expect more smears from Mark Joseph Stern and others.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Justice Thomas Doesn't Have To Recuse Over His Wife]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/10/no-justice-clarence-thomas-doesnt-have-to-recuse-because-his-wife-has-political-opinions/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas continue to expose the left's double standards and downright gaslighting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Justice Thomas Faces Such Racist, Unjust Attacks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/clarence-thomas-unjustly-attacked-dobbs-decision-shocking-violent-language</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Dobbs abortion case conservative justices have been attacked. The violent rhetoric has been especially strong against Clarence Thomas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Thomas Approaches Big Constitutional Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/clarence-thomas-principles-showcase-how-he-approaches-big-matters-of-constitutional-law/ar-AAYGPxq</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American public often misinterprets Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He is not a radical, right-wing ideologue.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Thomas in His Own Words]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/17/clarence-thomas-in-his-own-words/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It felt like the mob outside of the jail in To Kill a Mockingbird. They didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have their little robes on, but boy, they were sanctimonious, and they had their torches.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vindicating the Promise of America w/Clarence Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/vindicating-promise-america-clarence-thomas-opinion-1715363</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The following interview is an excerpt from Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta's new book,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' out from Regnery this month. It has been lightly edited for clarity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[40 Years of Attacks &amp; Slurs Against Justice Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/forty-years-attacks-slurs-against-justice-thomas-opinion-1705248</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Much of the black Democratic leadership in this country has been on a 40-year crusade to destroy Justice Clarence Thomas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Baseless 'Recusal' Attack on Justice Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-baseless-recusal-attack-on-clarence-thomas-opinion/ar-AAUW0Gs</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many judges are married to people who work in politics and public policy, and they frequently decide cases on which their spouses have opined.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NYT Printed False Smear Of Justice Thomas' Wife]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/07/the-new-york-times-knowingly-published-a-false-smear-against-clarence-thomas-wife/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New information reveals the Times knowingly printed a false allegation in a hit piece on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginni.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's War on Clarence and Ginni Thomas]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/the-medias-war-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Debunking the lies and distortions in the campaign to delegitimize a justice.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Yorker Lies Again About Clarence Thomas &amp; Wife]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/24/the-new-yorker-lies-again-in-hit-on-clarence-thomas-and-wife-that-falsely-claims-he-attended-a-dc-event/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer's article is full of falsehoods consistent with the malicious and error-filled book she co-authored about Clarence Thomas in 1994.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Amazon Continues to Cancel Clarence Thomas Doc]]></title>
							<link>https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/23/paoletta-amazon-should-have-to-explain-why-it-continues-to-cancel-clarence-thomas-documentary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amazon should give an explanation as to why it has taken down a popular documentary about Justice Clarence Thomas from its streaming platform.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Litmus Test for Conservative Court Appointees]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/10/18/a_litmus_test_for_conservative_court_appointees_132094.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to news reports, presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace intends to ask Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump about who they would select as a justice for the U.S.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Supreme Court.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  With Justice Scalia'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s seat still vacant, one of the first priorities of the next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Unexpected Ally Against the Clintons--David Brock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/01/15/trumps_unexpected_ally_against_the_clintons--david_brock_129316.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Paoletta</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When former President Bill Clinton was preparing to hit the campaign trail in support of his wife, he probably wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t counting on running up against the juggernaut that is Donald J. Trump. Mr. Trump, in response to Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s accusations of sexism, has unleashed a...]]></description>
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