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Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, where he manages the Civil Justice Reform Initiative.

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If D-Day Were Today, Would Millennials Step Up to the Challenge?
June 7, 2019, 9:13 AM EDT
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Liberal Activist Judge Halts Another Sensible Immigration Policy
April 15, 2019, 4:05 PM EDT
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Attorney General Barr Should Focus on 2 Questions When Investigating Spying on Trump Campaign
April 12, 2019, 10:44 AM EDT
Attorney General Bill Barr (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Alito’s Fear Courts Could Be Transformed ‘Into Weapons of Political Warfare’ Is Not Unfounded
March 28, 2019, 9:50 AM EDT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Covington Teen Could Win His Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN
March 18, 2019, 8:42 AM EDT
Nicholas Sandmann and his parents have followed up their defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post with one filed Tuesday against CNN. Sandmann, you’ll recall, is one of the Covington Catholic High School students savaged by the left after attending this year’s March for Life in Washington.
New Study: Voter ID Laws Have No Measurable Impact on Voting Behavior
February 27, 2019, 9:44 AM EST
Less than one week after Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams made inflammatory claims in her State of the Union response about an epidemic of “voter suppression” jeopardizing the character of our nation, the National Bureau of Economic Research released a study that demonstrates once again that voter ID laws have no measurable impact on voting behavior.
Trump Must Double Down Over Liberal Judge’s Ruling on Census Question
January 21, 2019, 3:04 PM EST
A Manhattan district court judge earlier this week blocked the Trump administration from adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, and in doing so has sought to weaken executive power while strengthening the administrative state.
Michael Cohen Did Not Violate Campaign Finance Law, and Neither Did Trump
December 12, 2018, 11:41 AM EST
President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, may have been convinced by the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to plead guilty to a supposed violation of campaign finance law, but that doesn’t mean that what happened is actually a federal crime.
Trump Can End Birthright Citizenship with Executive Order
November 5, 2018, 9:11 AM EST
When it comes to the 14th Amendment, my good friend and fellow Justice Department veteran Andy McCarthy agrees that it does not require birthright citizenship.
Trump Is Right: Ending Birthright Citizenship Is Constitutional
November 1, 2018, 10:31 AM EDT
President Donald Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he is preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship has the left and even some conservatives in an uproar.
Birthright Citizenship Stems from Fundamental Misunderstanding of 14th Amendment
October 30, 2018, 2:46 PM EDT
What’s the citizenship status of the children of illegal aliens? That question has spurred quite a debate over the 14th Amendment lately, with the news that several states—including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oklahoma, Georgia, and South Carolina—may launch efforts to deny automatic citizenship to such children.
The Left’s Latest Absurd Claim: Requiring Voter Registration Is ‘Voter Suppression’ Tool
October 25, 2018, 9:22 AM EDT
As Election Day rapidly approaches, the radical Left is making yet another absurd claim: that requiring voter registration is a “voter suppression” tool.
Liberal Activist-Created Website Using Kavanaugh’s Name Could Be Illegal
October 15, 2018, 9:00 AM EDT
After enduring weeks of character attacks and a disgraceful media lynching, Brett Kavanaugh now sits on the Supreme Court. But some activists still aren’t letting it go.
Twitter Initially Censors ‘Illegal Alien,’ ‘Criminal Alien’ Phrases as Hateful, Shows Social Media’s Bias
September 19, 2018, 9:45 AM EDT
Twitter made headlines recently when it denied the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan group, the ability to promote four tweets that—according to Twitter—contained “hateful content.”
Trump’s New Executive Order Is Positive Step for Securing Elections from Foreign Influence
September 18, 2018, 9:55 AM EDT
President Donald Trump’s new executive order allowing the sanctioning of foreign individuals attempting to influence American elections is a necessary step in the right direction, but more can be done.
California Violating First Amendment With Charitable-Donations Disclosure Mandate
September 17, 2018, 8:49 AM EDT
Should you be forced to disclose your charitable donations to the government?
New Strzok-Page Texts May Reveal ‘Media Leak Strategy’ at FBI, DOJ
September 12, 2018, 10:27 AM EDT
Peter Strzok has been fired from his job at the FBI, but the hits from his text messages to his former mistress, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, just keep on coming.
Racial Discrimination at Harvard and America’s Other ‘Elite’ Universities
September 4, 2018, 10:05 AM EDT
The Justice Department made news on Thursday when it filed a “statement of interest” in a long-running lawsuit against Harvard University that supported claims of Asian-American students that the university is discriminating in its admission process.
Omarosa’s Dishonorable Secret Recordings Threaten Future Presidents
August 20, 2018, 8:51 AM EDT
Even if you strongly oppose President Donald Trump and want to see him defeated in 2020 or impeached before then, you should hope his presidential campaign succeeds with its legal action against Omarosa Manigault Newman alleging she violated a nondisclosure agreement. And if she broke any laws, you should want her prosecuted.
New Report: Government Gave DACA Protection to Thousands of Criminals
August 2, 2018, 2:57 PM EDT
Historian Jacob Burkhart once warned against being deceived by “terrible simplifiers.” If he hadn’t died in 1897, you might be tempted to think he was writing about defenders of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.