Hans von Spakovsky Archives - Committee to Support and Defend

Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens

In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens into the U.S., concluding that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs rulemaking by federal agencies.

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-16T09:50:30-04:00March 16, 2023|ABW OpEd, OPED|

Von Spakovsky: Poll Observers Are Essential to Honest Elections

There is a reason the U.S. State Department and organizations like the Carter Center routinely send teams of American observers to fledgling democracies all over the world: they recognize that transparency is essential to ensuring honest elections. That requires observers to be able to watch every aspect of the voting and ballot-counting process without being intimidated or interfered with.

By Hans von Spakovsky|2022-11-12T11:18:32-05:00November 12, 2022|ACRU Commentary, Elections, OPED, Vote Fraud, Voting Fraud News|

Today’s FBI Partisans Tarnish Agency’s Already Damaged Image

The FBI is damaging its credibility with the American people. The latest revelations from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, about the political partisans who occupy the ranks of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country are, if true, deeply disturbing.

By Hans von Spakovsky|2022-08-05T10:52:53-04:00August 5, 2022|ACRU Commentary, OPED|

Hans von Spakovsky: YouTube Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Then Do About-Face

YouTube’s censors have struck again, removing a podcast discussing election integrity that it claims violates its “misinformation policy.”The podcast, hosted by Jacob Kersey, was an interview of me at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in February 2021 and had been on YouTube for more than a year before it was suddenly taken down.YouTube never responded to Kersey’s appeal of the ban, but a day after Douglas Blair wrote about the censorship in The Daily Signal, the video suddenly reappeared on the website. Kersey says he received no explanation from YouTube for its actions.

By ACRU Staff|2022-05-07T10:26:41-04:00May 7, 2022|ACRU Commentary, First Amendment, OPED|

Hans von Spakovsky: Ode to Patrick Henry: We’re Still Fighting to Protect Our Liberty Today

Americans who are fighting the left’s attempts to restrict our liberties, destroy our culture, and manipulate our society using the imperious power of the government sometimes may forget that we’ve been struggling to preserve our liberty and freedoms from overbearing governments since the beginning of our nation.

By ACRU Staff|2022-05-05T22:14:46-04:00May 5, 2022|ACRU Commentary, OPED|