#Bestof2021: 2/2: Filibuster speak. @RichardAEpstein (Originally aired March 22, 2021.)
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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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| 0:37.2 | Richard Epstein. We're discussing a legislation that's before the people in |
| 0:41.3 | Congress, the For the People Act called HR1 for |
| 0:46.1 | shorthand has been approved in a partisan vote in the House of Representatives |
| 0:50.5 | 220 to 210. |
| 0:54.0 | That describes the Democrats and the Republicans. |
| 0:57.0 | When it comes to the Senate, however, there are not, at this moment, any indication that there are enough Republicans to join the |
| 1:05.0 | Democrats for the 60 votes that are necessary for cloture. |
| 1:09.3 | However, there is talk of adjusting the filibuster. |
| 1:12.3 | Richard, do you see the filibuster being the first |
| 1:17.0 | opportunity for the Democrats to test H.R. 1? Are they going to go after the filibuster in order to get HR1 done in time for |
| 1:24.7 | 2022 or 2024? |
| 1:27.7 | First of all, I think that there are at least 48 Democrats who are going to do this and what is a highly |
| 1:35.1 | partisan environment a major structural change usually in one bipartisan |
| 1:39.4 | support think of the key Republicans to brought back in the 1964 for the Civil Rights |
| 1:45.2 | Act that the Dirtson essentially got his troops rallied in the Senate and got the |
| 1:49.4 | thing through over a cloture vote. What cloture basically requires 67 votes, not the 60 votes that you require today. |
| 1:56.7 | It all is going to depend upon what two senators from Arizona and from West Virginia do, and if they |
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