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 authorsI have to admit that if I had been sitting in the House chamber during President Obama’s State of the Union address, I would have… Read More
The “First Principles” on which this country were founded are the principles that the Heritage Foundation works to advance everyday. In today’s landmark U.S. Supreme… Read More
For the last nine months, the Justice Department has been stonewalling requests for more information about its dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New… Read More
The Washington Times is reporting today that the career chief of the Voting Section at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, Christopher… Read More
Some supporters of the health care “reform” bill being shoved through the Senate are dismissing concerns over the individual insurance mandate and the tax penalty… Read More
The Washington Time’s lead story today is about the Justice Department’s objection to a change of elections in Kinston, North Carolina. Why is this an… Read More
The embarrassing revelation in a recent Washington Post story that Attorney General Eric Holder “did not read detailed memos that prosecutors drafted and placed in… Read More
The Washington Times is reporting that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) at the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the dismissal of… Read More
Last Friday I had a post about the Justice Department’s dismissal of a public corruption case against New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. The AP reported… Read More
Given the apparent political motivations behind so many of the recent decisions at the Department of Justice (DOJ) — from the dismissal of the voter-intimidation… Read More
The Washington Times has published more follow-up stories today and yesterday about the Justice Department’s dismissal of a voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black… Read More
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The Republican senators questioning Sonia Sotomayor about her decision in the Ricci v. New Haven case have done a fair job detailing the legal issues…. Read More
The Ricci decision will get everyone’s attention today and deservedly so, but there is another important case still to be decided by the Supreme Court…. Read More
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Besides being a poorly-reasoned decision that threatens independent political activity, the Supreme Court’s holding this week in Caperton v. Massey Coal Company should raise concerns… Read More
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When the Supreme Court decided the Heller case last year striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, it recognized that the Second Amendment confers… Read More
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One of the biggest annoyances to the Left in recent years has been the Constitutional right of states to prohibit felons from voting. They have… Read More
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Imagine if you can a situation in which a white federal judge approved the clear and obvious discrimination engaged in by a small Southern town… Read More
Tort lawyers are about to get another big payoff from Congress and the Obama administration for the hundreds of millions of dollars they contributed to… Read More
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Following the news that Justice Souter will be retiring this summer after the Supreme Court’s present term ends, President Obama dropped into the White House… Read More
Eric Holder, the new Attorney General has the opportunity this week to show whether he really intends to keep his promise of supposedly making sure… Read More
Barack Obama can’t seem to win for losing when it comes to his nominees. Earlier this week, I wrote about the possible ethics violations committed… Read More
There have been various incidents over the past few years of anonymous flyers being sent to voters giving them the wrong date of an upcoming… Read More
In a decision that was virtually unnoticed in the media (imagine the stories if the holding had been different), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals… Read More
Prior to the November election, the media was full of stories and claims that John McCain and those terrible Republicans would be trying to intimidate… Read More
Having been a county election official myself many years ago, I know how difficult it can be to administer an election and make the proper… Read More
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, may end up being one of the most serious public corruption… Read More
The liberal political establishment is always expressing its concern over the possible “disenfranchisement” of voters (claims that almost always turn out to be completely exaggerated),… Read More
On Wednesday morning it was 725; on Wednesday night it was 477; on Thursday night it was down to 336; by Friday it was 239;… Read More
I have previously posted about the failure of the Justice Department and its Civil Rights Division to enforce the Help America Vote Act against the… Read More
