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<title><![CDATA[Jessica Levinson - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/39971.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jessica Levinson]]></description><category domain="39971">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump Doesn't Have Authority To Levy Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-lawsuit-tariffs-congress-constitution-rcna199738</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You wouldn't necessarily know it listening to the president, but the Constitution assigns the power to impose tariffs on Congress, not the White House.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bondi Puts American Bar Association in a Bad Position]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pam-bondi-dei-american-bar-association-aba-rcna195310</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's attorney general has put the American Bar Association in an impossible position.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Shows Limits on Guns Difficult, Not Impossible]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-gun-domestic-violence-law-rcna158339</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment doesn't allow domestic abusers to own guns shouldn't have even been a question.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Ruling a Rebuke of Conservative Appellate Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/abortion-pill-ruling-fifth-circuit-rcna157107</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[All nine justices felt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' forced to correct a deeply flawed opinion by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that would have eviscerated the court's standing doctrine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Breyer Says SCOTUS Majority Doing It All Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/stephen-breyer-reading-constitution-rcna154385</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question of how judges analyze the Constitution and statutes is perhaps the most pressing legal issue of our time.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Be Honest: Alvin Bragg Got Lucky]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-guilty-hush-money-trial-verdict-alvin-bragg-rcna153628</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's be honest with each other. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump was convoluted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fani Willis Gives Masterclass, But Damage May Be Done]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fani-willis-hearing-nathan-wade-rcna139001</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fact that there was even a hearing into Willis' alleged financial conflict of interest is great news for defendant Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Administrative State May Survive, Despite Trump's Wish]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/-trump-end-administrative-state-scotus-less-inclined-rcna127089</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After hours of oral arguments Wednesday in SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared ready to rule on relatively narrow grounds.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judges Have Come for What's Left of Voting Rights Act]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/voting-rights-act-conservative-judges-rcna126252</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If a recent appellate court decision stands, it will eviscerate the ability of minority voters to vindicate their right to vote.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Takes Overdue Half-Step Toward Accountability]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-ethics-code-lacks-enforcement-rcna124982</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court wouldn't have adopted this code were it not for ethics scandals facing current members, Justice Clarence Thomas especially.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Georgia Indictment Is About Much More Than Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fani-willis-georgia-trump-indictment-explained-rcna94928</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Fani Willis' sprawling new indictment is about a lot more than just Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disintegration of the Plea Deal Wasn't About Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/hunter-bidens-plea-deal-fail-nothing-politics-rcna96501</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hunter Biden had been expected to plead guilty to two charges of tax evasion Wednesday, but as is apparently so often the case for him, things fell apart.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Affirmative Action Decision Confirms Our Worst Fears]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision-rcna79701</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court's conservative trajectory didn't start with abortion '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and it won't end with affirmative action.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Charges Against George Santos No Laughing Matter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/george-santos-charges-rcna83850</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The crimes alleged against the first-year representative from New York are the kinds of crimes that undermine our political system.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Alito's Hypocrisy Fueling Crisis at Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/alito-s-abortion-decision-showed-total-lack-integrity-n1300368</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The justice reportedly told Ted Kennedy that he didn't plan on overturning Roe. So...that was a lie.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Ruling Against Social Media Bans Is Egregious]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/judges-ruling-against-twitter-protect-first-amendment-did-opposite-n1299005</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Far from promoting First Amendment rights, the 5th Circuit's ruling seems to end them for large social media companies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Response Is Definitely Paying Off--for DOJ]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/will-trump-be-arrested-holding-top-secret-documents-n1298391</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s response to the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago residence'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is paying off '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' for the Justice Department, not for him.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Kagan Has a Prescription for an Ailing SCOTUS]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kagan-roberts-know-supreme-court-burning-n1297556</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chief Justice John Roberts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and Justice Elena Kagan, perhaps more than their colleagues, are acutely aware that the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Supreme Court may be hurtling toward catastrophe. They know that if the court is viewed as illegitimate, it loses its authority.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling Is Doubly Disastrous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-s-epa-decision-not-good-bad-ugly-implications-n1296605</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This Supreme Court decision is about pulling back on the power of all federal agencies, not just the EPA.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Texas' Pro-Disinformation Law Is a Threat to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-social-media-law-very-bad-news-free-speech-n1295409</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Free speech includes the right of social media platforms to kick off provocateurs who peddle disinformation and hate speech.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS's Vaccine Mandate Rulings Hurt Biden &amp; America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/supreme-court-s-covid-vaccine-mandate-rulings-hurt-biden-america-n1287455</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Could the conservative majority of the court be more amenable to a more targeted vaccination mandate?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Manchin Killing BBB Will Hurt Women the Most]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/manchin-s-build-back-better-opposition-could-badly-hurt-america-n1286392</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Build Back Better would mostly benefit women, as the infrastructure bill mostly benefits men.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Religious Freedom No Excuse to Stay Unvaccinated]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/covid-vaccine-religious-exemptions-should-not-exist-here-s-why-n1281136</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The law defending religious exemptions for vaccine mandates doesn't exist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Roe v. Wade Is in the Supreme Court's Crosshairs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/supreme-court-will-likely-kill-roe-v-wade-gun-restriction-n1280573</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court is likely to exacerbate America's already existing fault lines.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CA's Recall Undermines Voters It Pledges to Empower]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/california-s-recall-vote-drawing-republicans-out-shadows-n1277570</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The irony is that California's recall, intended to empower the people, can actually undermine their votes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Win for DACA, But Trump Lives to Fight Another Day]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/daca-s-supreme-court-win-means-dreamers-stay-trump-lives-ncna1231488</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those of you celebrating the decision, here I am again, raining on your parade. There are a few important caveats to this case.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Roberts Could Determine the Future of Abortion in U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-s-new-abortion-case-focuses-spotlight-chief-justice-ncna1144591</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question of whether or not the court will respect precedent is a big one.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SCOTUS Ruling Brings Church &amp; State Closer Together]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/maryland-peace-cross-ruling-reveals-supreme-court-split-establishment-clause-ncna1020036</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While today's opinion may bring some clarity to the line between church and state, it remains a line drawn on an Etch A Sketch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Citizenship Census Question Is a Disastrous Move]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-court-s-census-decision-could-hand-control-electoral-college-ncna997841</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jessica Levinson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funding hang in the balance '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as well as the outcome of many federal elections from 2022 until 2030.]]></description>
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