Commentary Writing for the website of the UK Guardian newspaper, Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, recently took up the rhetorical cudgels on behalf of H.R. 1, known to its supporters as the For the People Act. To its Republican detractors, H.R.1 is a blatant attempt to remove long-established, state-enacted safeguards against election fraud. To Mr. Reich, now a professor at Berkeley, such safeguards are not only unnecessary—since it is axiomatic among Democrats that election fraud is a “myth” or a “lie”—but they amount to “voter suppression” aimed at “people of color.” This new laxity about election security, according to Mr. Reich, amounts to the most momentous American civil rights legislation “since LBJ’s landmark civil rights and voting rights acts of 1964 and 1965.” The Republican effort to defeat H.R.1 would therefore be, if successful, “the biggest setback” to civil and voting rights “since …