Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the host of Heritage’s "Case in Point" podcast.
View all authorsLawCommentary
We spend a lot of our time reading and analyzing judicial decisions from all over the country. But we don’t decide winners and losers based… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
California’s elections are already rigged overwhelmingly against Republicans—but apparently not enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom. With $10 million from George Soros and tens of millions… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant a stay of a lower court decision telling South Carolina it has to allow a transgender girl to… Read More
LawCommentary
If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
People can disagree about whether President Donald Trump had to send the National Guard to help fight crime in the nation’s capital, but it seems to have already reduced crime rates… Read More
LawCommentary
Imagine a president refusing to follow a court order. No, I’m not talking about President Donald Trump. Despite his critics’ frequent claims to the contrary,… Read More
LawCommentary
On Oct. 6, just a few short months from now, the Supreme Court marshal will utter the traditional “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!”—marking the start of yet… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Since he took office, President Donald Trump has been firing biased, partisan swamp creatures from the top levels of government agencies and commissions. These bureaucrats… Read More
LawCommentary
Contrary to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ nutty claim that Republicans are trying to “steal the midterm elections” by redistricting in Texas, state legislators there… Read More
SecurityCommentary
What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana fields? Surely, this would… Read More
LawCommentary
A woman votes in two different states for four elections in a row. A small-town mayor locks away ballots and refuses to count the votes. … Read More
SocietyCommentary
I know, I know. We have been in the midst of a blizzard of important domestic and world events this summer, from the final week… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Harry Reid, the former Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate, left the Senate in 2017 and died in 2021, but his ghost must still be… Read More
LawAnalysis
Can former federal officials be prosecuted in the Russia-Trump collusion hoax? That is the question arising from the recent actions of Director of National Intelligence… Read More
LawCommentary
In their attempts to thwart federal enforcement of our immigration laws, politicians like Democrat state Rep. James Hawkins of Massachusetts apparently want to make it even easier… Read More
LawCommentary
In polite but firm judicial language, the Supreme Court made it clear on July 3 that Massachusetts federal district court Judge Brian Murphy wouldn’t get… Read More
LawCommentary
Just before breaking for the summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in its October term that, in essence, concerns whether… Read More
LawCommentary
Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal… Read More
LawAnalysis
On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as well… Read More
LawCommentary
No other American president has faced as much hostile, ideologically driven judicial warfare as has President Donald Trump. But there was a president who also… Read More
LawCommentary
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the 9th Circuit released a unanimous opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California… Read More
LawCommentary
In a brilliant opinion Monday, New York federal district court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil not only denied the preliminary injunction sought by the American Association… Read More
LawAnalysis
Sanctuary cities’ runaround of the law may have finally come to an end, thanks to a creative program called Operation Guardian Angel. Launched by Bill Essayli,… Read More
SecurityNews
A federal grand jury in Nashville has issued a searing criminal indictment of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the El Salvadoran in the U.S. illegally whom… Read More
LawCommentary
On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department finally did what every prior administration (including Trump 1.0) for the past three decades refused to do—enforced… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Memorial Day, we honor the Americans who have died protecting and serving this country in the Armed Forces of the United States of America…. Read More
LawCommentary
President Donald Trump has been using an old tool ignored by recent presidents to target trade abusers like China that impose significant barriers to American… Read More
LawCommentary
During his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump acted with unprecedented speed to make major changes in government policies and root out the… Read More
LawCommentary
As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. How else can you make sense of or explain how two unrelated state court… Read More
LawCommentary
If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the… Read More
