Democrats try draconian ‘For the People Act,’ take two

Published May 14, 2024 12:22pm ET



Congressional Democrats in 2021 attempted to ram through a series of draconian election reforms aimed at harassing and limiting the speech of donors to their political opponents. Republicans rightly objected to S.1, laughably called the “For the People Act,” and successfully killed the bill.

Now Democrats are back, and since they gussied up their approach with attacks on artificial intelligence and slick rhetoric about the bill regulating Big Tech, which is simply not true, some Republicans seem willing to join this misguided effort.

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