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.
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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
