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Heritage Applauds Supreme Court’s Decision to Protect Election Integrity <[link removed]> – Heritage applauds the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the efforts of the Arizona legislature to protect the
security and integrity of its electoral process. Arizona’s ban on vote traffickers prevents candidates, campaign staffers, party activists, and political consultants from pressuring, coercing, and intimidating voters when they use absentee ballots. This safeguards all voters, but particularly vulnerable citizens. By upholding Arizona’s requirement that citizens vote in their assigned precincts—a requirement similar to that of almost every other state—the court is ensuring that elections will run more smoothly and securely, reducing the likelihood of fraud and legal votes being canceled out by illegal
ones. Heritage expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>

Heritage Applauds Supreme Court’s Decision to Protect First Amendment, Freedom of Association <[link removed]> – The Supreme Court handed down a victory for the First Amendment and the freedom
of association by striking down a draconian California policy that forced nonprofits to disclose their donors’ names and private information. The court rightly recognized that the freedom of association protects Americans’ right to meet in private for the exchange and discussion of ideas without fear of retribution or intimidation. In an age of cancel culture—where anyone who publicly expresses views challenging radical, far-left ideas also risks losing his job, expulsion from school, harassment, and even death threats—this opinion is as much a victory for freedom as it is a rebuke to the woke mob. Heritage expert: Tom Jipping <[link removed]>

Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Is Terrified About Truth Being Exposed on Critical Race Theory <[link removed]> – The nation’s largest teachers union is obsessed with smearing any criticism of critical race theory. CRT is a radical academic discipline that compels students to act on the Marxist idea that the world is divided between victimizers and their victims—statuses that are based mostly on race and ethnicity, but other immutable characteristics as well. Is this the best use of NEA resources for serving our nation’s educators? Do hard-working teachers really want their union dues empowering a political attack machine that wants to scare parents and others, including teachers themselves, who have real concerns about teaching that America is inherently racist or stereotyping students based on their skin color? Heritage is proud of its
comprehensive work in this field, which has always focused on explaining the facts behind critical race theory and how it is infecting all aspects of our everyday life. We stand with parents, educators, lawmakers, and other Americans who want children to learn about all of America’s history, without indoctrinating them in a toxic narrative that undermines student unity and achievement or implementing CRT’s racially divisive principles in ways that violate the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Heritage
experts: Lindsey Burke <[link removed]> and Mike Gonzalez <[link removed]>

How Donald Rumsfeld helped save the presidency <[link removed]> – Don Rumsfeld made the White House function during a time of crisis, the likes of which had not been seen since
the Civil War. His selfless patriotism and mastery of people helped the quiet man from Michigan save the presidency. If that were the only achievement of his long life, he would rightfully be considered among America’s greatest. History will be on his side. Heritage expert: Sec. Robert Wilkie <[link removed]>

Former Justice Department Lawyer Testifies to Voting Section’s History of Abusing Its Authority <[link removed]> – Riordan exposed improper, partisan behavior she witnessed throughout her
career, including during the 2000 presidential recount in Florida as Voting Section staff discussed strategies to assist the Democratic Party and sent faxes to then-Vice President Al Gore’s campaign operatives. Long before the Supreme Court ruled that Section 5 was no longer necessary or justified, entrenched Justice Department bureaucrats had weaponized this power. Riordan
recounted a 2009 objection to a proposed voting change in Kinston, North Carolina, a town where African Americans are a majority of the population. In a referendum election, the town voted to remove party affiliations from ballots and switch to nonpartisan elections for members of its City Council. Justice Department bureaucrats objected to this change, claiming it was discriminatory under Section 5 because black voters would not know who to vote for if the word “Democrat” wasn’t next to candidates’ names. That was a patronizingly insulting view of African American voters and an abuse of power that overruled the majority decision of the black voters of Kinston. Heritage expert: Hans von
Spakovsky <[link removed]>

Georgia’s citizen’s-arrest repeal not a path for states to follow <[link removed]> – It’s unclear how many other states, if any, maintain similarly broad rights
of self-defense such that complete repeal of citizen’s-arrest statutes wouldn’t leave peaceable citizens without a means of preventing criminal assailants from fleeing the scene. Instead of repeal, other states should look for reform. That reform should focus on clarity, accessibility and reasonable
limitations on the circumstances of arrest. Laws should emphasize and protect the primarily defensive nature of citizen’s arrests, with strict constraints placed on the ability of private individuals to actively seek out or pursue suspected criminals. Clearer and modernized citizen’s-arrest statutes won’t prevent every conceivable abuse of the law any more than clearer
self-defense statutes would prevent every case of questionable actions riding the line between lawful defensive force and murder. But clarifying the lines between lawful citizen’s arrests and unlawful vigilantism is nonetheless in Americans’ best interests and would help minimize the likelihood of future confrontations like the one resulting
in Ahmaud Arbery’s death. Heritage expert: Amy Swearer <[link removed]>

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