I'm John Bachelor. This is the new John Bachelor show, CBS Audio Network.

Richard Epstein, Professor Richard Epstein, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution is here,

to help me understand the unhappiness, Bruhaha, the dark words being tossed around about the Georgia legislature

changing or altering or in some way improving augmenting election laws which when compared to other

states do not immediately come to me as a departure from election laws that have

existed for some time. I don't want to get too much

into the details but I do mention baseball got involved by moving the all-star game,

never not important because everybody aspires to be an all-star from Atlanta to

Denver. Now there are reports comparing Colorado's election laws with Georgia's

election laws and there's so little distinction.

I won't go into the details to prove just to say there's so little distinction I don't

see it immediately.

There must be more going on here than comparing Colorado to Georgia.

Richard, the White House is very upset.

The President said intempered things about Georgia.

Federalism obliges the states to set the rules and to administer the elections for state officials

and for national officials.

Is that no longer accepted in Washington as the Biden administration already assumed

HR1 is in place and therefore you can speak against any state even if the legislature

has voted in an affirmative fashion?

Well, first of all, everybody concedes that the state elections are governed by

state election law, no matter what the federal government takes.

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