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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
PoliticsCommentary
The Associated Press claims it won a “major victory” in its lawsuit against the White House, but you would think a wire service that says it… Read More
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On Monday night, a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court not only dissolved the controversial temporary restraining orders issued by Judge James Boasberg of the… Read More
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Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville must have flunked Constitutional Law 101 from whatever law school he managed to graduate from. He apparently doesn’t realize… Read More
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Judge James Ho of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently charged that the nation’s major law firms are infested with the woke ideology of the… Read More
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take numerous actions intended “to protect the integrity of our election process.”… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Three years ago I wrote about what a spine-tingling feeling it was to attend a recreation of Patrick Henry’s fiery “Give me liberty, or give… Read More
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If you miss the flurry of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus now that the animals are gone, you might catch the next… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Fear is a strong motivator—especially when it’s given a political megaphone. And Democrat officials, public employee unions, and their minions in the media have no… Read More
SecurityCommentary
UPDATE—March 18, 2025: We have already heard from sources inside the FBI that as soon as this article was published, it was read by senior FBI… Read More
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The Trump administration is finally doing what President Joe Biden refused: revoking visas and deporting violent Hamas-supporting foreign “students” once and for all. These agitators should count their blessings…. Read More
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Despite a smattering of preliminary injunctions and administrative stay orders from rogue federal judges, President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is well on its… Read More
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Another federal district court judge has questioned the propriety of a settlement hastily proposed by the Biden administration’s Justice Department in a case it had… Read More
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The first case involving judicial interference in the president’s executive authority has reached the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal filed over President Donald Trump’s… Read More
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In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington’s permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter… Read More
If you want to see a prime example of the lawlessness of the Civil Rights Division under the Merrick Garland-run Justice Department, look no further… Read More
EducationCommentary
Did you know that 25 states offer in-state college tuition to illegal aliens? Probably not. And did you know that there is a federal statute… Read More
PoliticsNews
Democrats in Congress like Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., are criticizing President Donald Trump’s firing of 17 inspectors general, including in the… Read More
LawAnalysis
Few of President Donald Trump’s new executive orders have caused as much alarm as the one on birthright citizenship. That order prohibits federal agencies from issuing or… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and location of the Thule Air Base—now Pituffik Space Base—has… Read More
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In our modern age of camera-equipped cellphones and laptops, ubiquitous social media websites, and constant GPS tracking that everyone seems to use to go anywhere,… Read More
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It is bad enough that President Joe Biden has pardoned hundreds of drug dealers, embezzlers, thieves, and other dangerous criminals; commuted the death sentences of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The inclusion of aliens, legal or illegal, in the population used for apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and for redistricting (i.e., drawing new… Read More
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Imagine if you went to Hollywood trying to attract investors for the following movie plot: an incompetent, unethical, but politically ambitious local district attorney criminally… Read More
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Given vexing experiences in his first administration, once and future President Donald Trump is well aware of the resistance he will face from the Swamp,… Read More
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Editor’s note: This true story about my family was first published by The Wall Street Journal in 2008. It has now been 105 years since my… Read More
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The current battle in Congress over the continuing resolution to fund the government is a fight worth having to stop the bloated spending of the… Read More
