#Bestof2021: 2/2: 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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🗓️ 7 December 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/voting-act-doesnt-deliver-people1932
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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| 0:35.5 | We're discussing a legislation that's before the people in Congress. |
| 0:39.5 | The For the People Act, called H.R. 1 for shorthand, has been approved in a partisan vote in the House of Representatives |
| 0:47.5 | 220 to 210 that describes the Democrats and the Republicans. |
| 0:54.1 | When it comes to the Senate, however, there are not at this moment any indication that there |
| 1:00.3 | are enough Republicans to join the Democrats for the 60 votes that are necessary |
| 1:05.7 | for cloture. |
| 1:06.7 | However, there is talk of adjusting the filibuster. |
| 1:09.9 | Richard, do you see the filibuster being the first opportunity for the Democrats to test |
| 1:16.2 | H.R. 1. |
| 1:17.1 | Are they going to go after the filibuster in order to get H.R. 1 done in time for 2022 or 2024? |
| 1:24.0 | First of all, I think that there are at least 48 Democrats who are going to do this. |
| 1:31.0 | What is a highly partisan environment a major structural change usually |
| 1:35.4 | in one bipartisan support think of the key Republicans who was brought back in the 1964 for the |
| 1:41.6 | Civil Rights Act that the Dirtsson essentially got his troops rallied in the Senate and got the thing through over a cloture vote. |
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