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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Constitutional politics</title>
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		<title>One out of two ain&#8217;t bad</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/crime-control/one-out-of-two-aint-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/crime-control/one-out-of-two-aint-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feeling Safer Yet?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Firearms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[right to bear arms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to vote]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this makes sense&#8211;if we make it nearly impossible for felons to regain their right to vote, they&#8217;ll surely want to regain their right to fire weapons instead. &#160;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>If conservatives think the individual mandate is totalitarian, why on earth do they back a commerce-clause case?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/conservatism/if-conservatives-think-the-individual-mandate-is-totalitarian-why-on-earth-do-they-back-a-commerce-clause-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/11/conservatism/if-conservatives-think-the-individual-mandate-is-totalitarian-why-on-earth-do-they-back-a-commerce-clause-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libertarians and conservatives have become fond of calling the individual mandate totalitarian--or at least a gross and unconscionable deprivation of individual liberty.  But if so, why are they so comfortable with the prospect of courts finding it unconstitutional only when the *federal* government imposes it?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Piling on: Rick Perry&#8217;s book is bad, really.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/watching-conservatives/piling-on-rick-perrys-book-is-bad-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/watching-conservatives/piling-on-rick-perrys-book-is-bad-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Cross-posted at the Century Foundation&#8217;s Taking Note) Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein both review Texas Governor Rick Perry&#8217;s book, Fed Up! Our fight to save America from Washington. Matt notes what he calls &#8220;The ten weirdest ideas&#8221; in that book. Many of Perry&#8217;s ideas are, indeed, weird, such as the claim that Al Gore is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Wisconsin!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/on-wisconsin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/on-wisconsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vote Casting and Counting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I&#8217;ll drive from Chicago up to Sauk City, Wisconsin, to do voter protection, that is, pollwatching while holding a law degree.  Wisconsin historically has offered exceptionally inclusive voter access, including in-precinct same-day registration.  But one of the many delightful consequences of the Republican takeover of the state is a photo-i.d. law which isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Worst Argument Against Using the 14th Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/the-worst-argument-against-using-the-14th-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/the-worst-argument-against-using-the-14th-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One can argue, of course, that the President does not have the power under the 14th Amendment to unilaterally lift the debt ceiling.  But recently I&#8217;ve been seeing an argument to this effect that really makes no sense. Section 5 of the 14th Amendment says that &#8220;The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hitting the debt ceiling: what&#8217;s supposed to happen next?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/watching-conservatives/hitting-the-debt-ceiling-whats-supposed-to-happen-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/watching-conservatives/hitting-the-debt-ceiling-whats-supposed-to-happen-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone should ask John Boehner what comes next.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where Does the Debt Ceiling Even Apply?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/where-does-the-debt-ceiling-even-apply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/where-does-the-debt-ceiling-even-apply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize that this might come as a shock to RBC readers, but sometimes Congress passes statutes that conflict with each other.  What do courts do when faced these problems?  And what does it have to do with the debt ceiling? Well, consider this problem.  Congress passes a debt ceiling bill.  Then it passes a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Michael McConnell Weighs In on the Debt Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/watching-conservatives/michael-mcconnell-weighs-in-on-the-debt-ceiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/watching-conservatives/michael-mcconnell-weighs-in-on-the-debt-ceiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Michael McConnell speaks on constitutional law, people listen, as well they should.  And he says that the argument that the President can unilaterally issue new debt is &#8220;bunk,&#8221; for basically the same reason that Andrew Grossman said a few days ago: only Congress has that power.  That in and of itself is arguable, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Debt Ceiling Politics: The Right Is Getting Scared of the 14th Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/debt-ceiling-politics-the-right-is-getting-scared-of-the-14th-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/07/law-notes/debt-ceiling-politics-the-right-is-getting-scared-of-the-14th-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calls are growing from President Obama simply to tell Congress to stuff it when it comes to the debt ceiling.  Section 4 of the 14th Amendment says quite clearly that the &#8220;Public debt of the United States, authorized by law . . . shall not be questioned.&#8221;  At the very least that would mean that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Explaining deficits: public choices, not character flaws.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/macroeconomic-policy/explaining-deficits-public-choices-not-character-flaws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/macroeconomic-policy/explaining-deficits-public-choices-not-character-flaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomic Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I disagree with both my fellow bloggers.  The root cause of deficits isn't either national character or Republican perfidy.  It's the logic of social choice in a system of separated powers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Directions in GOP Political Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/watching-conservatives/new-directions-in-gop-political-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/watching-conservatives/new-directions-in-gop-political-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How capital smashes labor, in two sentences.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Constitution and the shut-down</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/watching-conservatives/the-constitution-and-the-shut-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/watching-conservatives/the-constitution-and-the-shut-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If the Republicans force a shut-down of the Federal government, that won't include shutting down the army, as the Constitution clearly provides it should.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Would protecting the Earth from an asteroid be Constitutional?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/constitutional-politics/would-protecting-the-earth-from-an-asteroid-be-constitutional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/constitutional-politics/would-protecting-the-earth-from-an-asteroid-be-constitutional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A reduction ad absurdum for the Tenthers and the GOP politicians who pretend to Tentherism.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will the Supremes Uphold the Affordable Care Act?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/watching-conservatives/will-the-supremes-uphold-the-affordable-care-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/watching-conservatives/will-the-supremes-uphold-the-affordable-care-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court issued a new opinion today making Commerce Clause jurisprudence exceptionally clear.  We now have a straightforward, simple test.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reason #379,000 Why Michele Bachmann Is An Idiot</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/watching-conservatives/reason-379000-why-michele-bachmann-is-an-idiot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/watching-conservatives/reason-379000-why-michele-bachmann-is-an-idiot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Her hatred of the Gore Vidal novel Burr reveals the Tea Party as a deeply anti-constitutional movement.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>The unsacred US Constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/law-notes/the-unsacred-us-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/law-notes/the-unsacred-us-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Michael Klarman of Harvard. I´m linking to this because (a) it´s a great piece of iconoclasm (b) Balkinization has turned off comments on the post. So open thread. Play nice.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Clean Ports Act &#8212; Dead on Arrival (in the Senate)</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/watching-conservatives/clean-ports-act-dead-on-arrival-in-the-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/watching-conservatives/clean-ports-act-dead-on-arrival-in-the-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City of Angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An impressive group of labor, economic development, and environmental groups is pushing to give more control to states and localities.  How many Republicans will support this effort to tame the federal government?  Do I have to ask?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8230;in which I become petty and backbiting &#8212; sort of</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/05/law-notes/in-which-i-become-petty-and-backbiting-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/05/law-notes/in-which-i-become-petty-and-backbiting-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 03:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=11474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Elena Kagan may not be the greatest scholar in the world -- and that may be why President Obama picks her for the Supreme Court.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sir Humphrey&#8217;s constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/05/britain/sir-humphreys-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/05/britain/sir-humphreys-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The DIY British contstutional convention on  a hung parliament.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Milton Friedman and the servile corporation</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/commerce-and-its-discontents/milton-friedman-and-the-servile-corporation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/commerce-and-its-discontents/milton-friedman-and-the-servile-corporation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In support of Friedman´s low view of corporate personality.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Impending Stevens Retirement: Time to Pick a Fight</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/law-notes/impending-stevens-retirement-time-to-pick-a-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/04/law-notes/impending-stevens-retirement-time-to-pick-a-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for the 2010 midterms, President Obama should nominate someone to the Supreme Court who will send the GOP base into full mouth-froth mode.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>DOJ Concludes that Yoo and Bybee Committed Professional Misconduct</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/02/watching-conservatives/doj-concludes-that-yoo-and-bybee-committed-professional-misconduct/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/02/watching-conservatives/doj-concludes-that-yoo-and-bybee-committed-professional-misconduct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the OPR report, it beggars the imagination for Judge Jay Bybee to tell us what constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment", or for Professor John Yoo to teach constitutional law.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/02/watching-conservatives/doj-concludes-that-yoo-and-bybee-committed-professional-misconduct/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Easy Way to End the Filibuster: Follow the Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/12/uncategorized/the-easy-way-to-end-the-filibuster-follow-the-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/12/uncategorized/the-easy-way-to-end-the-filibuster-follow-the-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democrats in Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Permanent campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's an easy way to get rid of the filibuster at the beginning of 2011.  If the Democrats fail to do it then, then they have no right to complain.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reconciliation, the filibuster, and the rules of the Senate</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/constitutional-politics/reconciliation-the-filibuster-and-the-rules-of-the-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/constitutional-politics/reconciliation-the-filibuster-and-the-rules-of-the-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The use of reconciliation to pass health insurance reform would not be cheating, as the threatened "nuclear option" was.  But it's time to get rid of the filibuster altogether, and that could be done by a simple majority at the beginning of the next Congress.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conrad&#8217;s health care regionalism: wimp-out or Jeffersonian?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/health-care/conrads-health-care-regionalism-wimp-out-or-jeffersonian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/health-care/conrads-health-care-regionalism-wimp-out-or-jeffersonian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A partial defence of Sen. Conrad: no to  coops, yes to regions.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nudging Proposition 8: What the Court Should Have Done With Same-Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/california-politics/nudging-proposition-8-what-the-court-should-have-done-with-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/california-politics/nudging-proposition-8-what-the-court-should-have-done-with-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law Notes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How could the California Supreme Court have overturned Prop 8 yet allowed the voters to ban same-sex marriage through a ballot measure -- and done so in a principled way?  Here's how.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The LA Times&#8217; Editors&#8217; Heads Explode</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/wayward-press/the-la-times-editors-heads-explode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/wayward-press/the-la-times-editors-heads-explode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayward press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Administration engaged in a a &#8220;systemic failure to take seriously the spirit as well as the letter of this country&#8217;s commitment&#8221; to the law and human rights, and therefore we should not do anything about it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Constitutional monarchy</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/politics-and-leadership/constitutional-monarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/politics-and-leadership/constitutional-monarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mysteries.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Muzzle all the lobbyists?  Not allowed (unfortunately).</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/microeconomics-and-policy-analysis/muzzle-all-the-lobbyists-not-allowed-unfortunately/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/microeconomics-and-policy-analysis/muzzle-all-the-lobbyists-not-allowed-unfortunately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microeconomics and policy analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark says we should prohibit the Big Three from lobbying against the public interest.  Sadly, that's almost certainly unconstitutional.  Simply firing the executives, not so much.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The other election</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/10/history/the-other-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/10/history/the-other-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jersey's election
]]></description>
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