Commentary Bill H.R. 1 is a monstrous confection of Nancy Pelosi’s to turn America into a one-party state at the federal level; it is almost certainly unconstitutional and is odious in almost every respect. But one point of merit that lurks within it and is either lost or mistakenly opposed is the provision for felons. As I’ve had occasion to write here before, one of the greatest failures of public policy in the United States is the criminal justice system. It is a mockery of justice as the deck is loaded in favor of the prosecutors. U.S. prosecutors convict 98 percent of those they charge and 95 percent of those cases are concluded without a trial, so overwhelming is the advantage that the prosecutors enjoy. (In Britain it is about 50 percent and in Canada, if abandoned prosecutions are included, about 60 percent.) Under the plea-bargain system, prosecutors interview everyone …