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Hans Von Spakovsky

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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 3

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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 3

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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 3

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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 4

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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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Fulton County Taxpayers Pay for Fani Willis’s Outrageous Misbehavior – Again

Imagine if you went to Hollywood trying to attract investors for the following movie plot: an incompetent, unethical, but politically ambitious local...

09.01.2025 10

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Draining the Swamp Should Start With New Civil Rights Commission Staff Director

Given vexing experiences in his first administration, once and future President Donald Trump is well aware of the resistance he will face from the...

07.01.2025 4

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A Christmas Tale, 1919

Editor’s note: This true story about my family was first published by The Wall Street Journal in 2008. It has now been 105 years since my father...

24.12.2024 40

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What Happens During a Government ‘Shutdown’?

The current battle in Congress over the continuing resolution to fund the government is a fight worth having to stop the bloated spending of the...

20.12.2024 20

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Achieving Election Integrity With a New Trump Administration

The key to what a new Trump administration can do to enhance the security of the election process is not to nationalize election operations,...

10.12.2024 4

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Getting New Leadership Confirmed Quickly for Next Trump Admin

The new Republican majority in the 119th Congress has to prove its worth, beginning with how it handles President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet...

19.11.2024 2

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Pennsylvania Officials Openly Admit to Trying to Steal Senate Seat

So much for the Left’s trope that election fraud is a myth. Enter the chairwoman of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia,...

19.11.2024 30

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The DOJ Is Wrong: Federal Law Doesn’t Prevent States From Removing Aliens From Voter Rolls

The Biden-Harris Justice Department is wrong in claiming that federal law bars Virginia and other states from removing aliens from their voter...

24.10.2024 4

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DOJ Wrong: Federal Law Doesn’t Prevent States From Removing Illegal Aliens From Voter Rolls

The Biden-Harris Justice Department is wrong in claiming that federal law bars Virginia and other states from removing aliens from their voter...

23.10.2024 2

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No, Elon Musk Is NOT Breaking Federal Election Law

Despite what you may hear from leftist so-called election law “experts,” Elon Musk is not violating federal law with his America PAC’s...

22.10.2024 10

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Are UK Labor Party and Harris Campaign Headed for Legal Jeopardy?

The United Kingdom’s Labor Party and Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign may be marching into the same legal jeopardy as the Australian Labor...

18.10.2024 4

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Why Is the Naval Academy Engaging in Election Interference?

By inviting a speaker, history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat of New York University—who has already said that she plans to attack presidential candidate...

02.10.2024 3

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Did New York’s Mayor Accept Foreign Bribes and Campaign Contributions?

Did New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, accept foreign bribes and foreign campaign contributions? That’s the key issue...

27.09.2024 30

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Get Ready for Another Mail-In Ballot Fiasco

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Many states are sending out mail-in ballots now for the Nov. 5 presidential election. Yet at the same time that so...

26.09.2024 20

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Criticism of Project 2025’s Reforms of Federal Election Commission Is Ill-Informed, Dangerous

Those attacking me for my participation in Project 2025, for which I wrote the chapter on how the Federal Election Commission should be run, reveal...

24.09.2024 5

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Question for ‘Elite’ Colleges: Were You Lying Then or Are You Cheating Now on Race-Based Admissions?

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its monumental decision in 2023 telling colleges and universities that “yes,” they did have to comply with the...

20.09.2024 4

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Trump Wins More Lawfare Dismissals in Georgia

The second attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend came just after the dismissal by a Georgia judge of more lawfare charges...

17.09.2024 4

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The Easy, Cheap, Quick Solution to the RFK Jr. Ballot Issue

Early voting is starting in many states, both in-person and through the absentee balloting process, which makes resolving the issue of Robert F....

07.09.2024 4

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As Usual, The Washington Post Gets an Election Story Wrong

One of the problems with reporters for The Washington Post is that they repeat the claims of liberals as if they are facts, without questioning the...

27.08.2024 3

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Google Finally Gets Its Comeuppance

In a recent court order, federal district court Judge Amit Mehta said what most of us have suspected for years: Google’s market dominance in online...

21.08.2024 20

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The 5th Circuit Stops Democrats’ Misuse of the Voting Rights Act—and That May Shift Control of Congress

In an Aug. 1 decision over redistricting of county commission seats in Galveston, Texas, the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has issued a...

03.08.2024 10

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