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<title><![CDATA[Lawrence Douglas - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/36851.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Lawrence Douglas]]></description><category domain="36851">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Electoral College a Gun Held To Head of Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/us-election-electoral-college</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Created as a constitutional afterthought, the system now holds millions of voters hostage to a handful of counties]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Supreme Court's Disturbing Immunity Decision]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/05/supreme-court-presidential-immunity-threat-american-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to the court, a rogue prosecutor is somehow more dangerous to US rule of law than a rogue commander-in-chief]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservative Justice Must Step Down From SCOTUS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/21/supreme-court-legitimacy-conservative-justice-step-down</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If presidents do not get to replace justices in an election year, then Coney Barrett's confirmation is illegitimate; if presidents do, then Gorsuch's is illegitimate. You can't have it both ways]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Can't Wait Any Longer. It's Time to Pack the Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/06/texas-pack-the-court-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember when Mitch McConnell twice invoked entirely made-up rules to politically shape the court's membership? Expanding the court will make it more legitimate, not less]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Trying to Create Rigged Voting System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/09/republicans-voting-rights-system-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A spate of new laws aims to suppress voters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' especially Black voters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and seemingly prevent free and fair elections]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Expect Trump to Accept Defeat If Biden Wins]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-biden-wins-dont-120002221.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The only way to guarantee Trump doesn't ignore election results is a Biden win so decisive it's apparent on election night.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are Staging Mini-Coups Across the U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/republicans-are-staging-mini-coups-across-the-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An 11th-hour tactic in Wisconsin is an attack on progressive causes and the integrity of the electoral process]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Dangerous, Despicable Assault on the DoJ]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/27/donald-trump-assault-justice-department-rule-law</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This dangerous and despicable action demonstrates yet again that the president is richly deserving of impeachment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Now Publicly Attacking Progressive Candidates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/26/democratic-party-laura-moser-texas</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Lawrence Douglas</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their desperation to win back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have turned to eating their own. How else to make sense of the unhappy drama unfolding in Texas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' 7th congressional district?]]></description>
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