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<title><![CDATA[David Litt - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/37163.xml</link><description><![CDATA[David Litt]]></description><category domain="37163">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Time To Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opinion/family-politics-arguments-right-wing.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Biden Is Right To Take On Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/biden-is-right-to-take-on-the-court/ar-BB1qkcrc?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Court Without Precedent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-court-without-precedent/ar-AAZUIiC</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The judiciary is supposed to be informed by historical memory, and guided by more than its members' whims.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Filibuster Is Still Doomed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-filibuster-is-still-doomed/ar-AAT20LU</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To hear Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema tell it, they hoped to defend voting rights. They also hoped, even more fervently, to defend the Senate filibuster.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Kavanaugh's Empty Democratic Promise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/justice-kavanaughs-empty-democratic-promise/ar-AARz9uH</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Constitution is neither pro-choice nor pro-life.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' So said Justice Brett Kavanaugh, not once, not twice, but three times during last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' oral argument'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Dobbs v. Jackson Women'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Health Organization. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the judicial equivalent of a poll-tested...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Lobbyists Trying to Gut Reconciliation Bill? No One Knows]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/22/biden-budget-build-back-better-lobbyists</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our campaign finance system makes it nearly impossible to track money in politics or hold our representatives accountable]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Have Little to Lose by Ending the Filibuster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-has-more-power-over-the-filibuster-than-he-s-been-willing-to-use/ar-AAOZAcv</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' majority of Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' oppose the Senate filibuster'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s still not entirely clear whether President Joe Biden is among them. In March, when asked whether he would call for changes to the Senate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 60-vote threshold for legislation,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Biden replied, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The only...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Got What They Wanted Out of Arizona Recount]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/30/arizona-recount-republicans-got-what-they-wanted</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The sham audit actually increased Biden's vote. But Arizona Republicans' goal was never to overturn the last election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' it was to lay the groundwork for overturning the next one]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Biden's Infrastructure Bill Tells Us About Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/12/biden-infrastructure-bill-democracy-us-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This was the kind of bipartisan bill many observers never thought would be possible in 2021. But don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be too quick to celebrate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Used to Laud 'Personal Responsibility']]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/30/republicans-used-to-laud-personal-responsibility-not-with-covid</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Republican party is encouraging Americans to make objectively selfish, harmful choices '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' then using the tools of government to shield them from accountability]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Voting Rights Laws Are Imperative. So Is Filibuster Reform]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/14/biden-says-voting-rights-laws-are-a-national-imperative-reforming-the-filibuster-must-be-too</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans' big lie makes it all but impossible for our republic to heal itself without new laws to defend democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New Voting Rights Law Has Never Been Closer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/24/voting-rights-bill-for-the-people-act-senate-manchin</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The For the People Act was never going to pass on the first try. Here's why the vote marked a step forward]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The McConnell Filibuster Is Worse Than Jim Crow's]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/25/the-mcconnell-filibuster-is-not-the-same-as-the-jim-crow-filibuster-its-much-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades senators blocked civil rights legislation but allowed democracy to function elsewhere '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? now next to nothing passes]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Already Got Rid of the Filibuster Once Before]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/we-already-got-rid-of-the-filibuster-once-before/ar-BB1emYk9</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The House used to have a filibuster too. And when legislators got rid of it, the result was a more democratic, productive institution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Will Soon Leave. But His GOP Enablers Are Still Around]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/16/donald-trump-republican-enablers-mitch-mcconnell</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's attempt to steal an election didn't come from nowhere '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' it was rooted in years of Republican contempt for democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Claims of Voter Fraud Have a Long History. And They're False]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/claims-of-voter-fraud-have-a-long-history-in-america-and-they-are-false/ar-BB1bDbsT</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump is not the first politician to push the voter-fraud myth for his political advantage, but he must be the last]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Will Replace RBG, But Dems Hold the Trump Cards]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/23/republicans-democrats-trump-mcconnell-ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives should not worry about what would happen if they mimicked McConnell's constitutional hardball. Their representatives need only act with a little less restraint]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-senate-filibuster-is-another-monument-to-white-supremacy/ar-BB161WBq</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The statues are falling. On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, Confederate President Jefferson Davis has been'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' yanked off his pedestal. In Philadelphia, the former mayor and virulent racist Frank Rizzo was transferred to a storage facility. Across the Atlantic, a crowd of protestors...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Not Safe to Be Opening Businesses Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://time.com/5839195/coronavirus-democracy-failure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s become commonplace to refer to COVID-19 as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' But what has cost the United States so many lives and jobs during the pandemic is not, at root, a failure of public health. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a failure of democracy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Countless Lives Are at Risk If Wisconsin Doesn't Stay Closed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/opinions/wisconsin-supreme-court-decision-cautionary-tale-litt/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Litt writes that Republicans using their majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn their Democratic governor's stay-at-home order, flouting the wishes of a majority of Wisconsinites, is a preview of what we may soon witness across America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stephen Miller's SOTU Was a White-Nationalist Wish List]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-stephen-millers-sotu-was-a-white-nationalist-wish-list?ref=home</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>David Litt</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know how many times I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve said that, mostly because I thought it was true. During my time as an Obama speechwriter, my goal was simple: Write something 90 percent as good as the president would if he had the time. I never tried to manipulate policy from behind the...]]></description>
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