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Ken Blackwell

Ken Blackwell is a policy board member at the American Civil Rights Union and its Protect Elderly Votes project. He is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and former secretary of state for Ohio.

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks on stage during Pennsylvania Conference For Women at Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Photo credit: Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Pennsylvania Conference for Women)
Gov. Wolf And His Legion of Darkness Must Be Stopped in Pennsylvania
November 9, 2020 | 10:21am EST
The American flag swirls in the wind. (Photo credit: Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
A Defense of America's Gold Standard, the Electoral College 
November 3, 2020 | 11:29am EST
A woman holds a portrait of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari, opposing his execution during a demonstration on the Dam Square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Sept. 13, 2020. (Photo credit: EVERT ELZINGA/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
UN Must End Iran’s Impunity of Crimes Against Humanity
October 28, 2020 | 1:06pm EDT
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia speaks during a roundtable discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump and industry executives on reopening the country, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Proxy Advisers Must Quit Playing Political Games With Workers' Retirement Security
October 19, 2020 | 10:40am EDT
Featured is the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Photo credit: DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)
Beware the Biden-Harris Orwellian Redefining of 'Court-Packing'
October 13, 2020 | 11:49am EDT
Former Vice President Joe Biden has declined to state whether he would try to pack the Supreme Court. (Photo credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
C'mon Man: Biden Must Answer Court-Packing Question
October 9, 2020 | 3:59pm EDT
A week after rioting in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the rubble of burned stores remains in the Uptown neighborhood, Sept. 2, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisc. (Photo credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Weak Mayors Choose Politics Over Protecting People
October 8, 2020 | 10:25am EDT
Vice President Mike Pence gives a speech. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Pence Should Ask Harris Why Dems Won't Support Healthcare Price Transparency Bill
October 7, 2020 | 2:08pm EDT
A huge mural of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei Iran's Supreme Leader painted next to a smaller one of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R) seen on Motahari street on March 8, 2020 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo credit: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)
UN Must Investigate Iran's Major Crimes
September 23, 2020 | 1:07pm EDT
A man proffers dollar bills. (Photo credit: Getty/Yuri Cortez/AFP)
Trump's Labor Department Seeks to Remove Potential for Left-Wing Abuses of Pensions
September 15, 2020 | 12:11pm EDT