Browse by Tags

All Tags » Hans von Spakovsky (RSS)
RNLA Members Advocate Pre-Clearance in Court Rather Than DOJ
2 Aug 2011 1:04 PM
Today, RNLA members Hans von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams questioned South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson for his decision to seek pre-clearance from the Department of Justice rather than a D.C. court. While speaking about the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice, von Spakovsky, the 2009 RNLA Ed Meese award winner... Read More...
by Brian Bennett | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: , ,
2009 Ed Meese Award Winner Hans von Spakovsky Publishes Paper on Voter ID
16 Jul 2011 11:56 AM
2009 Ed Meese Award Winner and RNLA member Hans von Spakovsky has published a paper on voter ID for the Heritage Foundation. Mr. von Spakovsky says there is a need for voter ID laws because of the importance that eligible voters are not stolen or diluted by a fraudulent or bogus vote cast by an ineligible or imaginary voter. Von Spakovsky responds to critics... Read More...
by Brian Bennett | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
2009 Ed Meese Award Winner Hans Von Spakovsky on Voter ID
13 Jun 2011 8:36 AM
2009 Ed Meese Award Winner, Hans Von Spakovsky published an op-ed in USA Today this morning on voter ID laws. Mr. Von Spakovsky's op-ed takes the view that voter ID laws ensure election integrity. His op-ed focuses on past voter ID laws passed in Georgia and Indiana that did not decrease minority voter turnout. Referring to claims of voter disenfranchisement... Read More...
by Brian Bennett | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
UPDATE: One More Reason to Eliminate the EAC
24 May 2011 12:57 PM
As posted yesterday, there is a bill to eliminate the Election Assistance Commission. One of the reasons the agency has undergone such strict scrutiny is because of a high profiling hiring scandal. Well, it has come to light that the Election Assistance Commission has another high profile hiring scandal . During the prospective General Counsel’s interview... Read More...
by Brian Bennett | with no comments
Filed under: , , , ,
DISCLOSE Act Is Back: Obama intends to reverse Citizens United decision by Executive Order
19 Apr 2011 2:33 PM
"They lost in the Supreme Court, they lost in Congress, they lost at the FEC, so now the president is just going to do it by edict." Hans von Spakovsky, today, reported that a source has leaked a document that the White House is apparently circulating among several government agencies. The document, entitled “ Disclosure of Political Spending... Read More...
by Casey Christine Higgins | with no comments
Filed under: , , , ,
Update on DISCLOSE Act: Another Deal Cut, Hearing Postponed
17 Jun 2010 1:39 PM
Democrats have carved out another exception in addition to the one reported yesterday, apparently this time for the Sierra Club. Please click here for Roll Call's report on the deal. (Note: subscription is needed to view the article.) Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), Ranking Member of Committee on House Administration, responded to the deal: Without any regard to... Read More...
by Justin Riemer | with no comments
Filed under: , ,
DOJ Attorney Exiled to South Carolina for Role in New Black Panther Party Suit
13 Jan 2010 8:53 AM
Hans von Spakovsky has a new piece at National Review discussing the exile of Christopher Coates, the career attorney at DOJ who recommended DOJ's Civil Rights Division file a suit over voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party for their actions outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in 2008. As most know, "[p]olitical appointees... Read More...
by Justin Riemer | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: , , ,
More Fallout from Election Assistance Commission Incident
4 Dec 2009 11:19 AM
The bad news continues for the Election Assistance Commissioners involved in the rejection of the applicant for the General Counsel position because he was a Republican. Republican members of Congress from the Committee on House Administration (the committee with oversight of the EAC and other federal election law matters) have called on the commissioner involved... Read More...
by Justin Riemer | with no comments
Filed under: , , , , ,
ACORN v. USA – They Are Suing the Government
12 Nov 2009 11:09 AM
Our friends at ACORN are at it again. Rather than accept the fact that an organization engaging in fraudulent and criminal activity should not have access to your tax dollars, they've decided to file a lawsuit against the United States. Specifically they've named HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, OMB Director Peter Orszag, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner... Read More...
by Chris Berg | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , , ,
Von Spakovsky: Will Military Voters be Disenfranchised?
2 Nov 2009 3:51 PM
At National Review Online , Hans von Spakovsky asks whether overseas absentee ballots in the Virginia and NY-23 elections will be counted. In Virginia, apparently some localities did not mail requested absentee ballots within 45 days of the election as required by a new Virginia law. In New York, Governor Patterson set the special election with only 35 days notice... Read More...
by Justin Riemer | with no comments
Filed under: ,
DOJ Civil Rights Division and Section 5
28 Sep 2009 9:14 AM
RNLA Member Hans von Spakovsky has an interesting look today in the role of some DOJ attorneys in the Civil Rights Division at National Review Online . He explores their use of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act to ensure that Democrat majorities are maintained, instead of using it for its intended purpose. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act may not look like... Read More...
by Matt Suermann | with no comments
Filed under: , , ,