#Bestof2021: 1/2: Filibuster speak. @RichardAEpstein (Originally aired March 22, 2021.)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/voting-act-doesnt-deliver-people
To be sure, the US Supreme Court let stand on grounds of mootness a highly dubious Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, handed down more than six weeks before the election, which allowed ballots filed after 8 p.m. on election day to be counted. I regard the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s action as a clear case of judicial usurpation of the legislative control of elections, which the Supreme Court should have heard before the election, but, by a 4–4 vote, did not.
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| 0:44.2 | Professor Richard Epstein Senior fellow of the Hoover Institution he teaches law at the |
| 0:48.6 | University of Chicago and NYU is here to comment on a new piece of legislation that's much in the news. |
| 0:55.9 | It's shorthand HR1. |
| 0:57.8 | The formal name is For the People Act. |
| 0:59.7 | This is about voting, voting in the future in the United States, for Congress, for the presidency, |
| 1:05.0 | really it's also about the Constitution and the history of the country. |
| 1:08.3 | Richard, I begin with a story from my memory of reading the 19th century newspapers. |
| 1:14.0 | It was the spring, it was the fall of 1860, |
| 1:18.0 | and early results from rural, then understood to be rural or distant estates, were critical for |
| 1:26.5 | the argument about the election coming up in November of 1860. |
| 1:31.2 | And I mentioned my memory is that the vote would be coming in from rural |
| 1:35.6 | Maine or rural Vermont and they would talk about the results not about the |
| 1:40.0 | presidency but about about about the, about local elections, and that was seen as |
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