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Mike Lee: “This is a violation of the vertical protection of federalism…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 25th

Published | Video Starts at 1:29:11

And so I'll list it first. Is stunning to me because the argument goes like this. We can't do this because states are in charge of elections, not the federal government. This is a violation of the vertical protection of federalism for the U.S. government to impose this mandate on the states which are constitutionally responsible, exclusively responsible for conducting elections. This is a lie. This is just a bold faced lie. It is incompatible with any reading of Article 1, Section 4, Clause 1. (1:29:11–1:29:25)

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Asserts that claims of federalism violations by the proposed law are false.

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