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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The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed by new, radical Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, filed a lawsuit on June 25 against Georgia. The Justice… Read More
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Partisan, political, designed to inflame. That’s what Merrick Garland’s recent speech on voting rights was. It certainly was not objective, measured, and deliberate—the kind of… Read More
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One of the false narratives constantly pushed by liberals is that the efforts of states to reform and fix vulnerabilities in their election systems are… Read More
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There is no suppression going on of anyone’s votes anywhere in the country. Anyone who says otherwise is just making it up. The Census Bureau’s recent… Read More
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The news that six states will gain seats in the House of Representatives and another seven will lose seats, thanks to new census numbers, was… Read More
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Here is the question that Sen. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, needs to answer: Is he going to vote in favor of a bill that takes… Read More
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The Judiciary Committee of the West Virginia House of Representatives held a virtual hearing on an election reform bill on April 5. What took place… Read More
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The obnoxious—and patently false—attacks on Georgia’s new election reform bill, which compare it to the hideous Jim Crow laws of the long-gone “Old South,” are… Read More
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HR 1, the so-called For the People Act, is a dangerous and radical bill. It threatens the security, fairness, and integrity of our elections and… Read More
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Not surprisingly, The New York Times is pushing liberal talking points when it falsely asserts in an article from Tuesday that reforms by state legislatures… Read More
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While leftists like Stacey Abrams and Vanita Gupta make false claims about nonexistent “voter suppression” over state efforts to fix vulnerabilities in state election laws,… Read More
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order sanctioning lawyers at Perkins Coie—the Washington law firm that represents Democratic candidates, as well… Read More
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HR 1, the deceptively titled “For the People Act,” has arrived in the U.S. Senate after a party-line vote in the House of Representatives. It is without doubt… Read More
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The so-called mainstream media, including CNN, is apoplectic over former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent commentary in The Daily Signal, in which he says that… Read More
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On his first day in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed a record 17 executive orders, many of them voiding commonsense policies enacted during the Trump… Read More
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State legislatures, take note: Americans have legitimate concerns over election integrity, as amply demonstrated by the many proven instances of voter fraud that we continue… Read More
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With the U.S. Supreme Court’s “baffling” refusal on Monday to grant review of the Pennsylvania election cases that had been appealed to the justices, the… Read More
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True democracy hinges on the integrity of the election process. Without the assurance that all legal votes are counted—and all illegal votes are weeded out—trust… Read More
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are probably two of the most important—and successful—pieces of legislation ever passed… Read More
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“So … you represented Trump?” That question is unfairly haunting a number of the former president’s lawyers. Because of his legal counsel to former President Donald Trump, constitutional scholar and… Read More
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Election fraud is real. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, which has chronicled more than 1,300 cases of election fraud, proves that election fraud does… Read More
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With President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of federal Judge Merrick Garland as his new attorney general last week, the question arises: Will Garland carry out his responsibilities… Read More
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Attorney General William Barr will leave office Wednesday the same way he came in—as a class act. He carried out his role as the consummate professional who… Read More
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So, will illegal aliens be included in the population count used for apportionment of the House of Representatives? We still don’t know. In a 6-to-3… Read More
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Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan last week finally got around to doing what he should have done months ago. Sullivan officially dismissed the Justice Department’s… Read More
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With the addition of the newest batch of cases, all from the state of Texas, The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database now has 1,302 cases… Read More
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If Texas has its way, the 2020 presidential election won’t be over soon. The state of Texas has filed an unprecedented motion with the U.S…. Read More
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To see what’s wrong with our election system, just look at all the claims and allegations being made in the litigation filed by the Trump… Read More
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Congressional Democrats weren’t happy to learn Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham as a special counsel in October to continue investigating the origins of… Read More
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Celebrities and politicians urging people to visit Georgia and falsely claim residency for the sole purpose of voting in two critical U.S. Senate runoff elections Jan. 5… Read More
