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Hans Von Spakovsky

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This Thanksgiving, Remember the Marines Who Gave Everything at Tarawa

This Thanksgiving, Remember the Marines Who Gave Everything at Tarawa

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, take a moment to remember the many Americans who gave their last full measure 82 years ago in the attack on... Read More...

27.11.2025 3

The Daily Signal

Hans Von Spakovsky

Texas Redistricting: The Most Scathing Denunciation of a Court Decision I’ve Ever Read

Texas Redistricting: The Most Scathing Denunciation of a Court Decision I’ve Ever Read

On Tuesday, the media was filled with stories that a three-judge panel had voted 2-1 to issue a 160-page order blocking the Texas legislature’s...

21.11.2025 50

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The Dishonorable Conduct Award: Judges Who Threw out the Statute with the Bathwater

We spend a lot of our time reading and analyzing judicial decisions from all over the country. But we don’t decide winners and losers based... Read...

04.11.2025 3

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Californians Said ‘Hands Off Our Maps.’ Newsom Didn’t Listen.

California’s elections are already rigged overwhelmingly against Republicans—but apparently not enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom. With $10 million...

02.11.2025 2

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Another Momentous Term Is in the Offing

The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant a stay of a lower court decision telling South Carolina it has to allow a transgender girl to... Read...

06.10.2025 4

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Humphrey’s Executor Case Shouldn’t Survive the Trump Presidency

If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and...

25.09.2025 4

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When a President Defies the Courts

Imagine a president refusing to follow a court order. No, I’m not talking about President Donald Trump. Despite his critics’ frequent claims to...

18.09.2025 4

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Come October, We’ll All ‘Keep Hangin’ On’ Waiting for the Decisions of the Supremes

On Oct. 6, just a few short months from now, the Supreme Court marshal will utter the traditional “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!”—marking the start of...

17.08.2025 9

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A Civil Rights Commissioner Who Needs To Go

Since he took office, President Donald Trump has been firing biased, partisan swamp creatures from the top levels of government agencies and...

13.08.2025 4

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In Colorado, state Attorney General Phil Weiser is the lawbreaker, not local deputies

Mesa County deputy disciplined for cooperating with federal immigration authorities faces lawsuit from Colorado AG despite following federal...

07.08.2025 70

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The Lone Star State’s Redistricting Is Constitutional, Legal, and Necessary

Contrary to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s nutty claim that Republicans are trying to “steal the midterm elections” by redistricting in...

06.08.2025 10

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Democrats Use Illegal Aliens to Obtain Cheap Labor to Support Their Lifestyles

What happens when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescues 14 children from labor exploitation and exposure to sex offenders in marijuana...

04.08.2025 20

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No Election Fraud? 1 Individual Votes in 2 States for 4 Elections in a Row, and More

A woman votes in two different states for four elections in a row.   A small-town mayor locks away ballots and refuses to count the votes.   ......

31.07.2025 3

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Senate Republicans Continue Harry Reid’s Nominee Blockade 

Harry Reid, the former Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate, left the Senate in 2017 and died in 2021, but his ghost must still be... Read More The post...

26.07.2025 80

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Prosecuting the Russia-Trump Collusion Hoax

Can former federal officials be prosecuted in the Russia-Trump collusion hoax? That is the question arising from the recent actions of Director of...

24.07.2025 50

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Democrats Repeat Their Despicable History of Encouraging Defiance of Federal Laws

In their attempts to thwart federal enforcement of our immigration laws, politicians like Democrat state Rep. James Hawkins of Massachusetts...

20.07.2025 3

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Supreme Court ‘Clarifies’ That Rogue Judge Brian Murphy Can’t Ignore the Court’s Mandate

In polite but firm judicial language, the Supreme Court made it clear on July 3 that Massachusetts federal district court judge Brian Murphy...

09.07.2025 30

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Supremes to Decide Whether Political Parties Can Act Like Political Parties

Just before breaking for the summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in its October term that, in essence, concerns whether......

08.07.2025 20

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Maryland Federal Judges All Get Hit With DOJ Lawsuit for Violating the Law

On June 24, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an unprecedented complaint against all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland, as...

01.07.2025 10

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Law Enforcement Ignored Dire Threats Against Pennsylvania Trump Voters’ Families, Property, And Pets

It is outrageous that local, state, federal, and postal authorities apparently did absolutely nothing to investigate what happened.

30.06.2025 30

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Midnight Judges Aren’t New—Here’s What Jefferson Did

No other American president has faced as much hostile, ideologically driven judicial warfare as has President Donald Trump. But there was a president...

26.06.2025 10

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National Guard Decision Is a Win for Public Safety, Not Just the President

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Ninth Circuit released a unanimous opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s federalization...

21.06.2025 10

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Federal Judge Kicks Radical Professors and Their Union to the Curb Where They Belong

In a brilliant opinion Monday, New York federal district court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil not only denied the preliminary injunction sought by the...

20.06.2025 4

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So-Called ‘Maryland Father’ Indicted for Smuggling Children, Guns and Drugs

A federal grand jury in Nashville has issued a searing criminal indictment of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the El Salvadoran in the U.S. illegally...

10.06.2025 6

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DOJ Sues Texas to Enforce Law Prohibiting States from Offering Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition—And Wins

On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department finally did what every prior administration (including Trump 1.0) for the past three...

05.06.2025 4

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Memorial Day and Hollywood

On Memorial Day, we honor the Americans who have died protecting and serving this country in the Armed Forces of the United States of America.... Read...

24.05.2025 20

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Tariffs—When the Supreme Court Settled the Tomato, as Well as the Bean, Question

President Donald Trump has been using an old tool ignored by recent presidents to target trade abusers like China that impose significant barriers to...

13.05.2025 30

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Trump’s 100 Days and the Legal War in Washington

During his first 100 days in office, President Donald Trump acted with unprecedented speed to make major changes in government policies and root...

04.05.2025 5

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Most of Trump’s Election Integrity Executive Order Remains in Place

If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving...

29.04.2025 8

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The Associated Press’ Narrow ‘Victory’ Over the White House

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......

17.04.2025 3

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Justices Hand Trump National Security Win That Protects Public From Illegal Alien Criminals

On Monday night, a 5 to 4 majority of the Supreme Court not only dissolved the controversial temporary restraining orders issued by Judge James...

09.04.2025 30

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Boston Judge Mark Summerville Should Go Back to Law School 

Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville must have flunked Constitutional Law 101 from whatever law school he managed to graduate from. He...

03.04.2025 4

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How Major American Law Firms Became a Tool of the Left

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...

31.03.2025 10

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Trump Acts to Protect American Voters

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing federal agencies to take numerous actions intended “to protect the integrity...

28.03.2025 5

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The Left Has No Respect for God, Country, or History–Including Patrick Henry

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......

26.03.2025 10

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The Beltway Circus Rolls on at U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

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 The post...

26.03.2025 80

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The Sky Will Not Fall and America Won’t Grind to a Halt Because Some Federal Employees Are Losing Their Jobs Due to DOGE

Fear is a strong motivator—especially when it’s given a political megaphone. And Democrat officials, public employee unions, and their minions in...

23.03.2025 10

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Some FBI Agents Haven’t Gotten the Message Yet on Gender Ideology

I don’t envy FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino in their new jobs running the agency. Getting control of an agency with... Read...

18.03.2025 20

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Masked Hamas Agitators at Universities Should Be Criminally Prosecuted

The Trump administration is finally doing what President Joe Biden refused: revoking visas and deporting violent Hamas-supporting foreign...

15.03.2025 9

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The Swamp Can Scream But DOGE Is on a Lawful Path to Success

Despite a smattering of preliminary injunctions and administrative stay orders from rogue federal judges, President Donald Trump’s Department of...

15.03.2025 10

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The Arrogance of the Garland Justice Department Apparently Had No Bounds

Another federal district court judge has questioned the propriety of a settlement hastily proposed by the Biden administration’s Justice Department...

12.03.2025 5

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The First ‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Case Gets to the Supreme Court on an Emergency Appeal

The first case involving judicial interference in the president’s executive authority has reached the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal filed...

19.02.2025 4

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‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Agencies Run Amok. Not for Much Longer, If Trump Has His Way.

In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington’s permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s acting solicitor...

15.02.2025 20

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How the Justice Department Conspired to Legalize Racist Hiring in Cobb County, Georgia, Before Trump Came In

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...

13.02.2025 90

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Taxpayer-Subsidized College Tuition for Illegal Aliens—but Not for Citizens

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...

08.02.2025 30

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Want ‘Due Cause’ for the Firing of Inspectors General?  How About This?

Democrats in Congress like Representatives Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif., are criticizing President Donald Trump’s firing of 17...

30.01.2025 10

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Buy Greenland, and You May Get More Than You Bargained for

President-elect Donald Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland is certainly understandable. The “gateway to the Arctic” and location of the...

21.01.2025 3

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Consumers Unaware Allstate Is Tracking Their Driving Behaviors

In our modern age of camera-equipped cellphones and laptops, ubiquitous social media websites, and constant GPS tracking that everyone seems to use to...

17.01.2025 5

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The Shameful Call for Clemency of a Tax Return-Stealing Felon

It is bad enough that President Joe Biden has pardoned hundreds of drug dealers, embezzlers, thieves, and other dangerous criminals; commuted the...

15.01.2025 80

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States Should Conduct Their Own Censuses, Use Citizens Only for Redistricting. Here’s How.

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.,...

14.01.2025 10

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