If Congress were to enact such a sweeping law – replacing election laws in all states – it would be doomed by a constitutional principle even the most liberal justices have recently endorsed.
The Democrat House majority has approved H.R. 1, an almost 800-page law with a 15-page table of contents and a final section reaching five digits. The law is designed, it says, “to protect the right to vote, to regulate elections for Federal office, to prevent and remedy discrimination in voting, and to defend the Nation’s democratic process.” It’s titled the “For the People Act of 2021.”
A neutral observer might be surprised to learn there is not a single congressional hearing nor legislative factual finding demonstrating the need for any of the hundreds of provisions in this all-encompassing legislation. The full text of the bill was first introduced on January 3, 2019, and it was passed by the House barely two months later, with no consideration by any committee, in a strict party-line vote of 234-193. It went nowhere in the Republican-controlled Senate.
After the 2020 election, the House passed it again on March 3, 2021, this time by a closer 220-210 vote, but still with no committee consideration or legislative finding. Its supporters call it “the most comprehensive anti-corruption reform since Watergate,” and the Senate’s Democrat leadership is threatening to end the established filibuster rule requiring bipartisan support for legislation so it can pass H.R. 1 before the 2022 election.
If Congress were to enact such a sweeping law – replacing election laws in all states – it would be doomed by a constitutional principle even the most liberal justices of the Supreme Court have recently endorsed.
Copyright law provides the most recent precedent for invalidating H.R. 1. In 2019, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to a 1990 law eliminating the sovereign-immunity defense states had invoked if they were sued for copyright infringement. A photographer whose videos had been used by North Carolina without his permission sued the state, claiming the 1990 law removed its claim that it could not be held accountable in court for infringement. --->READ MORE HERE
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the Democrats’ high-profile voting bill is awaiting action in the Senate and “must become law” to preserve the sanctity of the vote, doubling down on the sprawling measure two days after Sen. Joe Manchin III effectively doomed its prospects.
Mrs. Pelosi, writing to her Democratic colleagues, said the country faces an urgent moment as Republican-led states enact laws to tighten election procedures.
“By contrast, congressional Democrats have brilliantly and patriotically proposed legislation to respect the sanctity of our democracy,” the speaker wrote, before describing the bill’s status as “awaiting action in the Senate.”
Republicans have opposed H.R. 1, titled the For the People Act, saying it would give the federal government too much sway over state-run elections and invite chaos by allowing automatic registration, providing 10 days past Election Day to count mail-in ballots and taking authority away from state legislatures to draw district maps. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a related story:
H.R. 1 is a straight up Democratic power grab
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