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<title><![CDATA[Hans von Spakovsky - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17239.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Hans von Spakovsky]]></description><category domain="17239">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Kansas GOP Letting Dems Destroy Ballot Integrity]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/27/kansas-republicans-are-letting-democrats-destroy-ballot-integrity-safeguards/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trust in elections is fragile. It depends not just on the rules themselves, but on whether elected officials stand behind them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Aims To Rein in Federal Agencies Run Amok]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/15/mini-me-executive-branch-agencies-run-amok-not-for-much-longer-if-trump-has-his-way/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A president is accountable through the election process. It is the independent federal agencies that are the true threat to democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Naval Academy Speaker Runs Afoul of Edict]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/10/02/naval-academy-is-engaging-election-interference/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By giving Ben-Ghiat the academy's imprimatur, it appears to]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Google Manipulation Threatens Another Election]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/opinion/dont-let-big-tech-influence-the-elections-yet-again-this-year/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In less than six months, Americans will head to the polls.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will 2024 Elections Be Honest? Dem States Lagging]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/will-elections-finally-be-secure-and-honest-in-2024/ar-AA1m8PjI</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Looking back on what happened in the election field in 2023 can give us a better sense of what to expect in next year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s presidential election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Judges Have No Authority To Bar Trump From Ballot]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/02/trying-to-bar-trump-from-2024-ballot-is-unconstitutional-and-lawfare-at-its-worst/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[These anti-Trump ballot challenges are lawfare at its worst, trying to use the law and the courts as a political weapon.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fraud That Dare Not Speak its Name]]></title>
							<link>https://americanmind.org/features/the-haunting-of-the-american-mind/the-fraud-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dinesh D'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Souza'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new documentary, 2,000 Mules, raises serious questions about possible skullduggery in the 2020 election, involving absentee ballots across multiple states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Is Rolling Back Racial Progress]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/10/if-anyone-is-jim-crow-its-the-lef/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The left is rolling back the progress we have made in making discrimination unacceptable in our culture and society.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will NYT, WaPost Return Pulitzer for Collusion Stories?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-york-times-washington-post-pulitzer-russia-hans-von-spakovsky-stephanie-luiz</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times and The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for inaccurate coverage of Russia's alleged collaboration with the Trump campaign, a claim we now know was a hoax. When will they return the prize?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Durham Advances the Cause of Justice]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/john-durham-advances-the-cause-of-justice</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week, we learned that a federal grand jury has charged Russian national Igor Danchenko with five counts of lying to the FBI. The development has produced a greater implication of the Clinton campaign's culpability in the Russia-Trump collusion hoax.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Election Audits Should Be Routine in Every State]]></title>
							<link>https://spectatorworld.com/topic/audits-restore-faith-elections-arizona-virginia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Audits are a form of transparency, ensuring the security of the election process and improving confidence in the integrity of elections]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[H.R. 4 Would Let Leftist Extremists Control Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/26/how-h-r-4-would-let-leftist-extremists-at-the-doj-control-the-entire-nations-elections/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forcing states to run election rules by the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division is like giving that power to the Democratic National Committee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How HR 1 Imperils Free and Fair Elections]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hr1-for-people-act-elections-danger-hans-von-spakovsky</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[H.R. 1 is an 800-page monstrosity that would usurp the role of the states]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[9 Election Reforms for States to Prevent Vote Fraud]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/02/02/9-election-reforms-states-can-implement-to-prevent-mistakes-and-vote-fraud/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elections have consequences. That's why it's crucial to ensure that every vote counts, and isn't diluted by election fraud.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Right: All-Mail Voting Poses Grave Dangers]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/postpone-election-trump-hans-von-spakovsky</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many people misinterpreted President Trump's tweet Thursday morning about a possible delay in the Nov. 3 election as a threat by him to postpone the election. But that's not what his tweet said '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and in any event, no president has the power to delay Election Day]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Alarming Problems With Mail-In Voting]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/voting-epidemic-mail-ballot-failures-christian-adams-hans-von-spakovsky</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America does not have the time or resources to undertake a systematic, thought-through voting reform effort between now and November.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Latest Election Takeover Attempt]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/473446-the-latest-election-takeover-attempt</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new bill seeks to overturn a decision to leave this issue to the states.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should We Believe a Word Cohen Says?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/convicted-liar-michael-cohen-is-testifying-about-trump-should-we-believe-a-word-he-says</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Cohen is heading to prison after pleading guilty to lying to the IRS, financial institutions and Congress. But now he wants us to believe his accusations against President Trump are the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cohen Didn't Commit a Crime (&amp; Neither Did Trump)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/11/cohen-didnt-violate-campaign-finance-laws-and-neither-did-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Michael Cohen has admitted to making hush money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign, but similar types of payments on behalf of John Edwards' 2004 campaign were not ruled illegal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[New Court Filings, But Still No Russian Collusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/no-collusion-by-trump-with-russia-shown-in-new-cohen-and-manafort-court-filings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When he was appointed a Justice Department special counsel in May 2017, Robert Mueller was assigned the task of determining whether presidential candidate Donald Trump and/or members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to elect Trump president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Attacks on Whitaker Are Baseless]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hans-von-spakovsky-acting-ag-matt-whitaker-has-no-conflict-of-interest-and-no-reason-to-recuse-himself</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The demands that he do so are expressions of political theater with no factual or legal basis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Fever Dream of Mueller Indicting Trump Won't Happen]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/26/left-s-fever-dream-mueller-indicting-trump-won-t-happen-even-if-finds-something-here-s-why.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mueller must comply with the policies of the Justice Department '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? and the policy of the department according to the opinions issued in 1973 and 2000 is that a sitting president cannot be criminally indicted or prosecuted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Next Supreme Court Pick Will Be the Kicker]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/25/trumps-first-100-days-our-next-supreme-court-pick-will-be-kicker.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those who want to preserve our constitutional republic spent a lot of time and energy getting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. There is no doubt that his confirmation was an important step toward achieving that goal. But with rumors'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' swirling'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that another slot could open as soon as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gorsuch's Big, Immediate Impact on the Court]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/04/07/why-justice-gorsuch-will-have-immediate-and-big-impact-on-supreme-court.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's hope that Neil Gorsuch's confirmation means that the court once again has the crucial fifth vote needed to sustain the Constitution as written and to protect fundamental rights like religious freedom, free speech, and the right to bear arms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Immigration Order Is Legal and Constitutional]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445905/trump-immigration-order-legal-constitutional-five-federal-judges-explain-why</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What kind of judges fill the ranks of the federal judiciary these days? More often than not, unfortunately, it's the kind who refuse to follow the law and the Constitution, and whose biases and personal views distort their decision-making.Consider the multiple decisions enjoining...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Gets It Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/02/09/ninth-circuit-gets-it-wrong.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court has repeated the mistakes made by the district court judge who stayed President Trump's executive order (EO) temporarily suspending visas from seven terrorist havens. Both the judge in Washington State and the San Francisco-based circuit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Probe of Voter Fraud Is Long Overdue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/01/25/john-fund-and-hans-von-spakovsky-why-trumps-probe-voter-fraud-is-long-overdue.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has announced that his administration will be launching a major investigation of voter fraud, including those who are registered in more than one state, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'those who are illegal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and those voters who are dead but still registered. This followed a media firestorm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chicago Loses Another Gun Case]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444123/gun-control-ezell-v-city-of-chicago-gun-ranges</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest loss came in Ezell v. City of Chicago a case that has come before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals twice. Chicago lost the first round in 2011, when the court found that the city'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s complete ban on shooting ranges violated the Second Amendment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Illegal Votes Decide Elections?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Do+Illegal+Votes+Decide+Elections%3F&amp;oq=Do+Illegal+Votes+Decide+Elections%3F&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.62j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=Do+Illegal+Voters+Decide+Elections%3F&amp;tbm=nws</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s no way to know. But the evidence suggests that significant numbers of noncitizens cast ballots.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sessions Is the Perfect Pick for Attorney General]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/18/heres-why-jeff-sessions-is-perfect-pick-for-attorney-general.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Hans von Spakovsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President-elect Donald Trump has picked Sen. Jeff Sessions to serve as the 84thAttorney General of the United States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and he couldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have made a better choice.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Throughout his career, Sessions has demonstrated unshakable commitment and fidelity to the Constitution, the rule...]]></description>
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