Dennis Prager Show - John Fund: How is H.R. 1 Even Legal?
Aired: 2021-03-09
Duration: 06:57


=== Government Overreach in Elections (03:02) ===

[00:00:00]  Fund is known affectionately and respectfully as the Dean of American Journalists.
[00:00:05]  Forty years in the profession is never seen as dangerous a bill as H.R.1.
[00:00:11]  It's a takeover of elections to benefit Democrats.
[00:00:16]  It is truly, it is third world corruption.
[00:00:19]  I really never thought I would use these words to describe something in America.
[00:00:25]  So I need to understand, John, I really...
[00:00:28]  When I say that, my listeners know it's not a euphemism for I just want to ask a question.
[00:00:33]  I don't understand how the government, the federal government, can tell states how to vote.
[00:00:44]  The Constitution gives the states the right to conduct elections as they wish.
[00:00:51]  But there is a carve-out for Congress, and this would be if there was a rogue state that prevented people from voting.
[00:00:58]  We had a civil rights struggle in the 1960s over that that allows Congress to override the states in an emergency, and it has only been used in emergency situations.
[00:01:10]  This would take that provision and expand it to the edges of the universe and basically have a federal takeover of all state election laws.
[00:01:23]  Would or could that be challenged in the courts?
[00:01:27]  It would be challenged in the courts, but the law cleverly says that any challenge to H.R. 1 must be filed with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
[00:01:40]  That court was packed with liberal activist Democrats by Harry Reid.
[00:01:45]  Six years ago, they blew up the filibuster for judges just to make sure that four liberal judges could be added to that court.
[00:01:53]  Almost certainly reject any constitutional challenge to H.R. 1. Then the only appeal would be to the U.S. Supreme Court.
[00:02:01]  And then, of course, the same forces that have intimidated some justices on that court would be brought to bear.
[00:02:07]  So while the U.S. Supreme Court may well strike it down, would they strike down all of it or just portions of it?
[00:02:15]  And can we count on them doing that, or should we stop it now?
[00:02:19]  We should stop it now.
[00:02:22]  It's extremely scary, and I don't get scared easily.
[00:02:26]  So give some of the worst provisions.
[00:02:29]  Well, it mandates that all states must allow all felons to vote.
[00:02:34]  It forces same-day voter registration on states, which has been shown over and over again to encourage voter fraud.
[00:02:42]  It limits the ability of states to talk to each other to see if people are registered in one or more state.

=== California's Complex Voter Registration (04:09) ===

[00:02:48]  It prevents any cleanup of voter rolls within six months of an election, which means the dead will be fully enfranchised.
[00:02:56]  And look, I admire our ancestors, but I don't believe in representation without respiration.
[00:03:03]  And it bans states from making any laws regulating voting by mail.
[00:03:08]  It demands that states adopt new redistricting commissions, which often are designed in such a way as to benefit one party or another.
[00:03:18]  It mandates that mandatory voter registration.
[00:03:24]  In other words, if your name appears on any government list, Dennis, the DMV, the property tax rolls, Medicare, anything, you are automatically registered to vote.
[00:03:37]  Now, many people appear on more than one list for the government.
[00:03:40]  In fact, some appear on dozens.
[00:03:42]  Well, all of you would be registered.
[00:03:44]  Including all variations of your name, middle, initial, and everything else.
[00:03:47]  That would create an incredible confusion and chaos, which clever people could use to manipulate and cast votes on your behalf or many of your doppelganger parts.
[00:04:03]  You know, it's interesting.
[00:04:04]  I don't know how much you follow this, but we have a recall campaign here where I live in California.
[00:04:11]  It is, of course, with regard to Gavin Newsom as governor.
[00:04:14]  They are so strict with regard to the credibility of each vote that even though you can have the recall election with 1.5 million signatures, they try for nearly 2 million because so many are thrown out because the color of the ink was not proper, the signature was not fully there.
[00:04:38]  On that, they're really strict.
[00:04:41]  Boy, have you identified their hypocrisy.
[00:04:45]  I'm from California, as you know, Dennis.
[00:04:48]  And here's just two things you have to know about how California election law is conducted.
[00:04:54]  California will ignore people registering to vote if they have problems with their paperwork.
[00:05:04]  But they will, of course, enforce it for the recall of a Democratic governor.
[00:05:07]  And California is the only state in the country where it is illegal.
[00:05:11]  An election worker, an election official can go to jail if they ask someone for their voter ID. And will that be the national law under H.R. 1?
[00:05:23]  H.R. 1 is 975 pages.
[00:05:27]  975 pages just on voting law?
[00:05:31]  Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:05:31]  The table of contents is 24 pages.
[00:05:36]  I'm going to put you on the spot.
[00:05:38]  Did you read it?
[00:05:39]  I have read summaries of it.
[00:05:41]  I am skimming the rest of it.
[00:05:43]  I do not believe, as of yet, that they make it a requirement that every state make it illegal to ask for a voter ID. But remember, the voter ID law is gutted because they basically make it meaningless.
[00:05:56]  Right.
[00:05:57]  You also mentioned...
[00:05:59]  The length of time.
[00:06:01]  We have gone from election day to election month.
[00:06:05]  What exactly are they trying to do?
[00:06:08]  Well, think about this, Dennis.
[00:06:09]  Everything in your life happens faster and more conveniently than it ever did.
[00:06:14]  I mean, you can get a package delivered by Amazon in two hours.
[00:06:17]  uh...
[00:06:18]  you can get almost anything instantly uh...
[00:06:21]  the internet in terms of looking up something the only thing in our life that has slowed down since you and i were younger election results Because so many people are being encouraged or compelled to vote by mail.
[00:06:35]  We have an election month in which people vote by mail in advance of the election, sometimes even before the debates are finished.
[00:06:43]  Then we have an election day where we count those people who insist on voting at the polls.
[00:06:48]  And then we have an election month afterwards so we can have courts fight about it and count the ballots.
[00:06:55]  All right, hold on to remember the California point.