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		<title>A Running Joke or Blind Hypocrisy?</title>
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February 7, 2012:  Gavel Grab’s Peter Hardin praises Justice at Stake partner (and fellow Soros $$ beneficiary) The Constitution Project for condemning “the rising frequency of attacks on federal judges over their decisions.”
February 6, 2012:  Gavel Grab’s Peter Hardin attacks federal judges over the Citizens United decision and the decision to hear the Obamacare case.

Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberalism = Law; Conservatism = Ideology?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Hardin over at Gavel Grab rips into the U.S. Supreme Court for “take-no-hostages politics” that are causing “collateral damage” in the form of “erosion of public trust in the courts.”  What’s got him foaming at the mouth?  Apparently, the decision by the Supreme Court to even consider the constitutionality of “President Obama’s signature domestic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/02/07/liberalism-law-conservatism-ideology.html</link>
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		<title>Judges or Jelly Beans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a must-read column, George Will catalogues the way governments impose restrictions on political speech that is troubling or inconvenient to the people in power.  As Will points out, the clarion cry of speech restricters is the need to get “money” out of politics – a refrain we constantly hear from the $45 million+ “merit” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/02/03/judges-or-jelly-beans.html</link>
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		<title>NC Law Prof Demolishes &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strong oped by Elon University law professor Scott Gaylord on the subversive campaign afoot in North Carolina to take the power to pick judges away from the people.  In a recent post, I pointed out that North Carolina Beverly Perdue’s new judicial advisory panel is stacked with trial bar poo-bahs.  Gaylord lifts the rock even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/02/02/nc-law-prof-demolishes-merit-selection.html</link>
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		<title>More on Tennessee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Oatney weighs in on a proposed constitutional amendment in Tennessee to establish in law what the state has already achieved in practice – namely pick judges by secret “merit” selection rather than in open democratic elections by “the qualified voters of the State,” as the state Constitution prescribes.
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		<title>The Wrong Direction for Tennessee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tennessee Senate Speaker and Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey “says he’ll hit the campaign trail to get a proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2014” to affirm the state’s “merit selection” system.  Many have long doubted the constitutionality of the scheme, which has been used since 1971, given the Tennessee Constitution’s requirement that judge be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/01/30/the-wrong-direction-for-tennessee.html</link>
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		<title>Do As I Say, Not As I Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gavel Grabbers – the social media arm for Justice at Stake and the $45 million George Soros-fed campaign to shape America’s courts to his uber-left political leanings – are wringing their hands over the “anti-court fever” stoked by Newt Gingrich.  Gavel Grab quotes criticism by columnists who decry the “constitutional crisis” Gingrich is “promising,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/01/27/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do.html</link>
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		<title>If It Looks Like &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection and Smells Like &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has “merit” selection become so discredited that its supporters won’t even utter the name?  That seems to be the case in North Carolina, if Paul D. Carrington of the North Carolina Bar Association Committee for Judicial Independence is any guide. 
In a Charlotte News and Observer oped last week, Carrington bemoans the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/01/23/if-it-looks-like-merit-selection-and-smells-like-merit-selection.html</link>
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		<title>Meet James Bopp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The left-wing American Prospect has a long profile on James Bopp, a tireless leader in the battle to overturn restrictions on free speech in elections, which typically masquerade as “campaign finance reform.”  Bopp is best known for filing the suit that resulted in the landmark Citizens United decision, but he also played a key role [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://americancourthouse.com/2012/01/20/meet-james-bopp.html</link>
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		<title>More Grumbling About &#8220;Merit&#8221; Selection in Missouri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Discontent over judges and the system for choosing them continues to build in Missouri, the birthplace of “merit” selection.  The latest flashpoint:  A plan by six appeals court judges to gerrymander state congressional districts.  Senator Kevin Engler points out that the boundaries of three districts are suspiciously contorted right around his house, with one cutting [...]]]></description>
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