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Content: Back to Antebel- lum Federal Relations,  Say  Some  Critics of  Rulings,  NAT'L L.J.,  July 5. 1999, at A1 (quoting Professor Tribe as warning that the decisions in Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S.  706 (1999),  College 
1168  Alabama Law Review  [Vol. 53:4: 1167 ratic Senators, such as Charles E.  Schumer of New Y~rk;~ and editori- alists at The New  York  Times4 and The Washington Post.' The Court, of course, has stalwart defenders in the ranks of academiaY6 politics,'  and the media.' The criticisms of the Rehnquist Court do not follow a neat line. The sharpest criticisms  come  from the  Left  and  are directed  at the  Com- merce  Clause interpretations in  United States v. Morrisong and  United States v. Lopez,"  and  the  decisions  that  protect  the  sovereignty  and autonomy  of  state  governments  such as Seminole  Tribe  v. Florida," Printz  v. United States,'* and Board of  Trustees  of  The  University  of Alabama v. Garrett. I3 Some criticisms, however, come from the Right, such as the criticisms of the decision in City  of  Boerne v. Flores,14 in which  the  Court declared most  of  the  Religious  Freedom  Restoration Act unconstit~tional. '~ Other criticisms involving charges of  hypocrisy 
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