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Castigating Conservative Justices in the Kagan Hearing

Hans von Spakovsky | June 28, 2010

Listening to Senators Feinstein, Durbin, Leahy and Schumer castigating the current members of the U.S. Supreme Court in their opening statements in the Kagan confirmation… Read More

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Sessions’ Opening Statement on Elena Kagan

Hans von Spakovsky | June 28, 2010

As the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan got underway at 12:30, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), lost no time… Read More

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Protecting the Second Amendment (But Just Barely)

Hans von Spakovsky | June 28, 2010

In what is probably the most important Second Amendment case in Supreme Court history, the Court today held that the “right of the people to… Read More

The Kagan Rush to Judgment

Hans von Spakovsky | June 25, 2010

The Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan starts on Monday, June 28. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,… Read More

Debating (or Not) the DISCLOSE Act

Hans von Spakovsky | June 24, 2010

The House Rules Committee met yesterday to set the rules for debate on the DISCLOSE Act. True to form, the committee kept the public out… Read More

Obama in Wonderland with the Oil Spill Commission

Hans von Spakovsky | June 23, 2010

In its lead editorial yesterday, The Wall Street Journal pointed out the lack of scientific and engineering expertise of President Obama’s appointments to the seven-member… Read More

Moratorium One of Many Obama Oil Spill Mistakes

Hans von Spakovsky | June 22, 2010

The order by a federal district court in Louisiana overturning President Obama’s six-month general moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico illustrates many… Read More

A Broken Immigration Court System

Hans von Spakovsky | June 21, 2010

We all know how bad the federal government is at controlling our border, but we face the same problem in the system set up to… Read More

The White House and OfferGate

Hans von Spakovsky | June 19, 2010

Imagine this hypothetical: An independent oil company executive accuses BP of offering him a job if he’ll stop competing against a BP subsidiary — a… Read More

DISCLOSing Contempt for Liberty and the Constitution

Hans von Spakovsky | June 17, 2010

You’d think that members of Congress would have a keen knowledge of and appreciation for congressional history; you’d think they would know better than to… Read More

Trust Fund Ignores Rule of Law

Hans von Spakovsky | June 17, 2010

Why does President Obama keep saying that his administration will do everything it takes to make BP “pay for the damage the company has caused”… Read More

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Wednesday at Heritage: Panel on ‘The Myth of a Conservative Court’

Hans von Spakovsky | June 15, 2010

Following President Obama’s unseemly attack on members of the Supreme Court because of their ruling in Citizens United v. FEC during this year’s State of… Read More

The DISCLOSE Act and the NRA: Some Bad News

Hans von Spakovsky | June 15, 2010

Just as opposition was building in the House to the unconstitutional and burdensome DISCLOSE Act, which is intended to help Democrats in the November election… Read More

Another Going-Away Party

Hans von Spakovsky | June 07, 2010

I previously reported for National Review Online on the memorable going-away speech by Christopher Coates, the former career head of the Voting Section in the… Read More

A Loss for the FEC, A Victory for the First Amendment

Hans von Spakovsky | June 02, 2010

Yesterday, the federal district court for the District of Columbia issued an injunction against the Federal Election Commission in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. As a former… Read More

Sestak Job Offer Violated Federal Law?

Hans von Spakovsky | June 01, 2010

Federal statutes seem to contradict a memorandum from the White House counsel released on Friday that claimed that no law was violated when Rep. Joe… Read More

Sestak Memo Only Raises More Questions

Hans von Spakovsky | May 28, 2010

Robert Bauer, the White House Counsel, has released a two-page memorandum in response to the controversy involving Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and the promise by… Read More

Sestak, Obama, and the Law

Hans von Spakovsky | May 26, 2010

With Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D-PA) defeat of Sen. Specter (D-PA) in the Democratic Senate primary, the controversy over the alleged job offer made to Sestak… Read More

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Impending Government Censorship

Hans von Spakovsky | May 25, 2010

Last week, eight former commissioners from the Federal Election Commission (including me) tried to warn a committee in the House of Representatives that a bill… Read More

Rolling Arizona Just Business as Usual for Obama DOJ

Hans von Spakovsky | May 25, 2010

As Andy McCarthy pointed out over at National Review Online, Attorney General Eric Holder seems to be profiling Arizona. Holder said on NBC’s “Meet the… Read More

Dismissing the Black Panthers and the Professionals at Justice

Hans von Spakovsky | May 20, 2010

We now have the second casualty of the Obama Administration from the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. Christian Adams, one of the career trial lawyers… Read More

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Kagan’s Inaction on Second Amendment Case Raises Questions

Hans von Spakovsky | May 14, 2010

Much of the discussion and speculation about Elena Kagan’s legal philosophy is limited by her very thin record of scholarship, along with an almost complete… Read More

A Voting-Rights Case to Watch

Hans von Spakovsky | April 28, 2010

Roger Clegg and I recently reported on the lawsuit filed in the first week of April on behalf of residents of Kinston, N.C., contesting the… Read More

Professor Liu as the Wizard of Oz

Hans von Spakovsky | April 20, 2010

Until last Friday, I did not realize that the Obama administration is apparently using Frank Morgan’s performance as the Wizard of Oz as training material for… Read More

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Justice Stevens, Voter ID Laws, and the Future of the Supreme Court

Hans von Spakovsky | April 12, 2010

With the long expected retirement announcement by Justice John Paul Stevens on Friday, President Obama gets a second opportunity to shape the Supreme Court to… Read More

Restoring the First Amendment – One Case at a Time

Hans von Spakovsky | March 29, 2010

On Friday, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck another blow towards restoring every American’s First Amendment right to engage in political… Read More

Census 2010 – The American Race

Hans von Spakovsky | March 24, 2010

Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies and I have been talking on at NRO’s The Corner about the Census form and the particularly… Read More

Fed Forced Felon Voting: Another Leftist Assault on the Constitution

Hans von Spakovsky | March 17, 2010

There seems to be an almost constant effort by some members of Congress to act unconstitutionally and to push through legislation that is beyond the… Read More

To Answer or Not to Answer the Census – That Is the Question

Hans von Spakovsky | March 12, 2010

I have been deluged lately with requests asking me whether one has to answer all of the questions on the 2010 Census, particularly those about… Read More

Breaking: The Latest Worthless Medical Malpractice “Reforms”

Hans von Spakovsky | March 10, 2010

When President Obama held his health care summit at the White House, Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) pointed out that a key part of containing medical… Read More

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