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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14841">        <title>Looking for Heroes? Go to Boise, Idaho</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14841</link>        <description>The writer celebrates a jury decision in Boise,
Idaho</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ben Long</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Communities</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:42:41Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14668">        <title>Judges tie themselves in knots when it comes to the
West</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/wotr/14668</link>        <description>The writer outlines the ideological underpinnings of
judicial flip flips on key Western issues</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:41:40Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15888">        <title>In Bush's Supreme Court, who's on first?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/309/15888</link>        <description>Newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts may not be the
umpire he claims to be, but he could be worse: a
counter-revolutionary, like Judge Janice Rogers Brown</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Roberts</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Janice Rogers Brown</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Harriet Myers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Senate Judiciary Committee</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>baseball</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>umpires</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>William J. Klem</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>World Serie</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Commerce Clause</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>originalists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>hidden Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>constitutional interpretation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judici</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T08:31:31Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15167">        <title>Brace yourselves for the counterrevolution</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/288/15167</link>        <description>Don’t worry so much about what President Bush will
do to the environment; worry instead about the three new justices
he might put on the Supreme Court</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Jon Margolis</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental law</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>oil and gas drilling</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roe v.
Wade</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Douglas Ginsberg</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Randy Barnett</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Constitution</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>right
wing</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservative judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Water Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clean Air Act</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>End</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:22:14Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15051">        <title>State judges get political</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/284/15051</link>        <description>In Western states where judges are elected, an increasing
amount of special-interest group money is being spent on hotly
contested state judge campaigns</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>State judgeships</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state supreme court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>elections</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Cindy
Younkin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Nelson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jim Johnson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Mason</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>U.S. Chamber of
Commerce</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Justice at Stake</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Echeverria</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental Law and
Policy Institute</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judicial issues</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>state judiciary</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:21:30Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14856">        <title>Supreme Court reins in citizens' right to sue</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/278/14856</link>        <description>A recent Supreme Court ruling in a Utah wilderness lawsuit
will limit the ability of citizens to sue the government over how
its agencies manage natural resources</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public Lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>wilderness</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Southern Utah
Wilderness Alliance</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Antonin Scalia</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>citizen lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental activists</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>John Leshy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>off-road vehicles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Interior
Department</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bureau of Land Management</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>BLM</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:58:03Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14730">        <title>Shooting Spree</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14730</link>        <description>The West’s environmentalist lawyers are manning the
legal barricades, as the Bush administration stealthily attacks the
nation’s bedrock environmental laws</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmentalist lawyers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>legal
system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Supreme Court</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Todd True</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clinton
environmental policy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clinton administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental laws</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NE</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14565">        <title>Congress overrules the courts</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14565</link>        <description>Even when environmentalists win in the courtroom, Congress
can overturn the court’s interpretation of an existing law by
passing a new one</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Laura Paskus</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Congress</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>court system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental
movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Migratory Bird Treaty Act of
1918</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Pentagon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Center for Biological Diversity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Peter Galvin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Letty Belin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Geoffrey Fettus</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>NRDC</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>nuclear
waste</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:17Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14564">        <title>Jurisdiction shopping made simple</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14564</link>        <description>The environmental records of federal judges are briefly
examined, including Dee Benson, Don Molloy, Alan Angus McDonald, B.
Lynn Winmill, Michael Hogan, Edward Lodge, Clarence Brimmer, James
Parker and Sam Haddon</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>court system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dee
Benson</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Don Molloy</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Alan Angus McDonald</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>B. Lynn Winmill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Michael
Hogan</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Edward Lodge</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Clarence Brimmer</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>James Parker</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sam Haddon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>logging</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mining</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>endangered species</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hanford</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>downwinders</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14553">        <title>In conservation contests, there are no slam
dunks</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14553</link>        <description>The increasing politicization of the courts is creating a
hazardous landscape for conservationists, who need to diligently
oppose anti-environmental judges</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Paul Larmer</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judge Malcolm Marsh</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>salmon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judicial nominations</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>roadless lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Yellowstone snowmobiles</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judge nominees</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sierra
Club</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:56:10Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14740">        <title>The Faces Behind the Lawsuits</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/274/14740</link>        <description>Environmentalist lawyers Johanna Wald, Joe Feller, Laird
Lucas, Letty Belin, Mike Axline, Jay Tutchton, Roger Flynn and Tom
France are briefly profiled</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Johanna Wald</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Natural Resources Defense</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmentalist lawyers</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Joe Feller</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Western Mining Action Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Laird</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Roger Flynn</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Tom</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocates for the West</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>envir</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jay Tutchton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Project</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>National Wildlife Federation</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Advocacy Groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>France</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mike Axline</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Letty Belin</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lucas</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-02-05T09:57:15Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14552">        <title>Tipping the scales</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/268/14552</link>        <description>A right-wing coup is under way in the nation’s
courts, which George W. Bush is stacking with anti-environmental
judges, and the impacts on Western conservation issues are not
going to be pretty</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Ray Ring</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Earthjustice</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judges</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bush administration</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>judicial fundamentalism</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Bill Clinton</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>H</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lawsuits</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial System</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>right wing politics</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>conservation groups</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>George W. Bush</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>court system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Judicial system</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>lifetime</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>environmental movement</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>federal judges</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-03-12T22:47:18Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>



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