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Biden, Leftists Aren't Interested in Preserving Election
Safeguards <[link removed]> — Free and fair elections are critical to the health of our republic. It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat. Unfortunately, the left would rather turn this principle on its head and sacrifice one of our most cherished and hard-fought rights in order to gain more political power. HR 4 is a leftist election takeover designed to remove fundamental election safeguards and open opportunities for cheaters to manipulate election results in their favor. The bill would essentially require every state to get the approval of partisan attorneys in the Biden administration before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices. HR 1 would go even further in eroding and eliminating basic security protocols that states have in place; and interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, secure the fairness and integrity of elections, and participate and speak freely in the political process. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Supreme Court Just Heard Oral Arguments in Vaccine Mandate Cases. Here Are the Takeaways <[link removed]> — The Supreme Court made it clear that agencies have only the authority that Congress has given them via a duly-enacted statute and that the COVID-19 pandemic does not supply
additional statutory power despite its dangerous and deadly consequences. The Medicaid and Medicare health care facility mandate and the OSHA workplace mandate both stem from statutory language that has never been used to require vaccination. Today’s questioning from some justices seemed to indicate that under either law, the government lacks any authority to do so. The court will likely issue an order in the two cases in the very near future either halting the vaccination mandate or allowing them to go forward, with opinions to follow. Whatever the outcome in today’s cases, their consequences promise to reverberate for some time. Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Noncitizens’ Right to Vote Becomes Law in New York City <[link removed]> — The New York City Council resolution to allow permanent alien residents and aliens holding work authorizations to vote in local election is clearly illegal. It violates Art. II, Sec. 1 of the New York Constitution that requires citizenship to vote in all local and state elections in New York. Allowing aliens to vote diminishes the value of citizenship and reduces the incentive for immigrants to become citizens and make a commitment to this country. You cannot, and should not, separate citizenship from suffrage since the right to vote is one of the most basic and important privileges of being a citizen. Given the fact that New York voters just defeated liberal attempts to implement other unwise election rules through referenda, including same day voter registration and no-fault absentee ballots, allowing aliens to vote would clearly go against the will of the public. This is also an attempt to normalize what should not be normalized: the idea that aliens should be allowed to vote in all U.S. elections. Heritage Expert: Hans Von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Russia-Ukraine crisis offers Biden moment to save his presidency <[link removed]> — If the White House goes down the path of giving Putin something for nothing, they will spend all their diplomatic energy beating up on Ukraine and the Northern and Central Europeans
to give in to what Putin wants. There is no way, if Biden chooses this option, that we don’t wind up with a shakier NATO and heightened risk of future wars. What Biden needs to do is flip the script. Instead of talking concessions, he should look at how quickly he can reinforce the sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and make every effort to contribute to the self-defense of Ukrainian territory by Ukrainians. Heritage Expert: James Carafano <[link removed]>
Is Stagflation Returning in 2022 <[link removed]> — During the late 1970s, American
families experienced stagflation—a combination of economic stagnation and significantly higher inflation. By the summer of 1980, unemployment hit 7.8 percent and the economy was actually shrinking. On the year, inflation spiked 12.3 percent. Some fear that today’s slowing economic growth (2.3 percent annualized last quarter) and the steepest price hikes in 40 years portend a return to stagflation.Heritage Expert: Joel Griffith <[link removed]>
How Congress made you a federal criminal <[link removed]> — There are many other questions to answer about the federalization of crime. For example, this data can be used to explore whether one political party creates more federal crimes than the other. Or whether Congress’s profligate crime making has any sort of deterrent effect on dangerous criminal behavior. Or how much it’s contributed to the growth in the number of federal prisoners. The data also provide support for the many researchers documenting decades of growth in new federal offenses and harsher punishments, such as the federal drug laws that have exploded since the DOJ’s 1982 estimate. For now, at least we can put a concrete number on the magnitude of the
problem. Congress has created a system of criminal laws that no American can reasonably be expected to know and obey. Now, with better tools at its disposal, there may be hope for Congress to fix it. Heritage Expert: GianCarlo Canaparo <[link removed]>
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