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Can HR1 pass in the Senate? — 19 Comments

  1. “Exactly how this could be done I don’t know – clearly, the bill is even less related to the budget than Obamacare was – but I would never underestimate Democrats’ ability to bend the rules in order to consolidate their power, and the Court’s ability to look the other way.”

    The courts would not come into play on that piece of it. Reconciliation is a process related to the rules of the Senate, which are governed solely by the Senate. The constitution is also clear that the legislature has the authority to set rules on federal elections so a constitutional challenge would probably have to be on some very narrow aspect in the legislation.

    The more interesting aspect if HR 1 were to pass is how red states react to it. While the federal legislature can set rules on federal elections, the same authority does not extend to state and local elections. Would states rearrange their local elections to be held off-cycle with those for federal office, with different rules? How would Democrats react at the federal level? How long would this last? I mean, all it would take is for a single election where Dems win, for example, control of the political machinery of Texas, to bring the state in line with federal rules, and thereby lock in a Dem political majority in that state for ever more. HR 1 is the whole ball of wax, no doubt about it.

  2. Burton M:

    I wasn’t thinking the courts would rule on the reconciliation aspects of HR1, but rather on other aspects of it. Perhaps I didn’t make that clear, though.

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