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Trump's election integrity speech: 7 takeaways every American should know

Trump alleges China stole 220 million U.S. voter files and claims intelligence officials deliberately hid the cybersecurity breach from him and...

19.07.2026 10

Fox News

Hans von Spakovsky

Judges Enable Fraud By Hindering Federal Laws Requiring Accurate Voter Rolls

The Supreme Court should ensure that the National Voter Registration Act is properly applied by the federal judiciary.

24.06.2026 3

The Federalist

Hans von Spakovsky

Majority of Justices Seem Prepared to Hold that the President Can Control the Executive Branch

Who controls the executive branch of government? For more than two hours on Monday, the Supreme Court listened to U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer...

09.12.2025 30

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

The Trump Case Is Finally Dead, but Fani Willis Left Fulton County Taxpayers on the Hook for Millions of Dollars

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not just blow up her own witch-hunt RICO prosecution through her unethical misbehavior. She handed the...

05.12.2025 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 8

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 40

Fox News

Hans von Spakovsky

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

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Federalist

Hans von Spakovsky

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 30

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Hans von Spakovsky

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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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 8

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 10

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Hans von Spakovsky

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 20

The Daily Signal

Hans von Spakovsky