#Bestof2021: 1/2: The fragile filibuster (1972, 1975) is the last obstacle to the likely unconstitutional HR1. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 November 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/voting-act-doesnt-deliver-people
The “For the People Act” (FTP), designated HR 1, is by far the most comprehensive federal voting rights act ever proposed. The bill was introduced into the House of Representatives on January 4 and passed therealong strict party lines two months later—220 for and 210 against. This divisive legislation represents a concerted effort by the House Democratic majority to consolidate and build on its gains from the 2020 election cycle. Its unabashed supporters, such as New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, hail the legislation as “a roadmap to an inclusive, diverse, and equitable democracy.”
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| 0:44.3 | Richard Epstein, Professor Richard Epstein, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, he teaches |
| 0:48.8 | law at the University of Chicago and NYU, is here to comment on a new piece of legislation that's much in the news. |
| 0:56.7 | It's shorthand HR1. |
| 0:58.6 | The formal name is For the People Act. |
| 1:00.5 | 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. |
| 1:09.0 | Richard, I begin with a story from my memory of reading the 19th century newspapers. |
| 1:15.2 | It was the spring, it was the fall of 1860, and early results from rural, then understood to be rural or distant estates, were critical |
| 1:27.1 | for the argument about the election coming up in November of 1860. |
| 1:32.0 | And I mentioned my memory is that the vote would be coming in |
| 1:35.8 | from rural Maine or rural Vermont and they would talk about the results not about |
| 1:40.7 | the presidency but about about about the Congress about local elections |
| 1:45.0 | and that was seen as a harbinger. Now that occurs to me might be an example of |
| 1:50.4 | what you've identified in the Constitution. |
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