Fox News is repeatedly lying about H.R. 1 and S. 1, the For the People Act, which recently passed in the House of Representatives and now is before the Senate. Most of the falsehoods pushed by Fox are recycled from past right-wing voter suppression efforts, but challenges to the constitutionality of the bill are a new twist.
However, the false claims that the For the People Act is unconstitutional because it asserts federal control over the states are an ahistorical “caricature of an argument.” Rather, this lie is in part a byproduct of a failed argument of the former president in his efforts to baselessly challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election results. Worse, the argument is an ugly reminder of the type of voter suppression the Reconstruction amendments and the civil rights movement were supposed to prevent.