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Oh, the panic is rising on Capitol Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congress has just three days to \u201csave\u201d FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), so sayeth the proponents of the surveillance state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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More specifically, Section 702 of FISA is set to die at midnight Friday. While opponents of the congressional license to spy on Americans would gladly dance on Section 702\u2019s grave, some say the so-called \u201cmust-pass\u201d legislation could save the SAVE America Act \u2014 the critical election integrity package that most Americans love and Democrats loathe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Election Transparency Initiative, a national advocate for election integrity, is calling on Congress to attach the legislation to the FISA Reauthorization.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Congress says FISA protects America\u2019s security. The SAVE Act protects America\u2019s elections. Congress is moving one because it says the stakes are too high to ignore. The same standard should apply to the other,\u201d Ken Cuccinelli, National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, said Tuesday in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Hold the Senate Hostage\u2019<\/h2>\n

The SAVE Act, which requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot in a U.S. election, has hit a wall in the Senate after Republicans passed it multiple times in the House. Senate Democrats, who recoil from election integrity like vampires from sunlight, have the zombie filibuster to keep the bill from moving to a vote without the burden of debate. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., insists he doesn\u2019t have the votes in his conference to attempt a talking filibuster, which would force Democrats to continuously debate the legislation to keep it from reaching a simple-majority vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, as Cuccinelli notes, there are a lot of Republicans and Democrats who are enamored of the surveillance state. They ache over the idea that the intelligence community will lose its sweeping ability to spy on Americans. They see renewing Section 702 of FISA an absolute must-pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMust-pass really doesn\u2019t mean it must pass, but congress feels like it must pass,\u201d Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, told me Tuesday in an interview on the Vicki McKenna Show<\/em>. \u201cAnd you can fully expect congress to try to rush through this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have warned of \u201cdevastating\u201d consequences if Congress fails to pass the FISA reauthorization. In late April, the House overwhelmingly voted (235-191) to renew Section 702, with 42 Democrats voting with Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cuccinelli said the House needs to \u201chold the Senate hostage,\u201d to decline to pass FISA without the SAVE America Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLet them all freak out,\u201d he said. \u201cWe went three weeks without FISA coverage in 2015.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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But Democrats are already throwing a hissy fit over President Donald Trump\u2019s appointment of Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting national intelligence director. Senate Dems and seven Republicans last week blocked an extension of the surveillance tool, with outgoing Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., calling on Trump to remove Pulte.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetting FISA lapse would reflect a nation paralyzed by hyper-partisanship and dysfunction. POTUS can help by canceling plans to put Bill Pulte as Acting DNI,\u201d Bacon wrote on X, apparently not seeing the nakedly partisan efforts by Democrats to nix a Trump pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Banana Republic Stuff\u2019<\/h2>\n

Senate Republicans attempted to attach the SAVE America Act to the reconciliation bill that will fully fund federal immigration law enforcement. Four Republicans \u2014 Sens. Susan Collins, Maine, Mitch McConnell, Ky., Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and Thom Tillis, N.C. \u2014 voted with Democrats to kill the election integrity amendment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVoter ID is the most popular thing out there,\u201d Sen. Josh Hawley told Fox News Digital. \u201cThere\u2019s reason for that. People want their elections to be safe, they want them to be fair. And to me, you can\u2019t explain it to me, why you wouldn\u2019t vote for voter ID. I just don\u2019t understand it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually pretty easy to understand. Election integrity costs Democrats elections. California has eschewed photo ID, clean voter rolls and basic identification standards on its ubiquitous mail-in ballots. California is effectively a one-party state, showing off why that is in the suspect Los Angeles mayoral race in particular.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Banana Republic stuff,\u201d Cuccinelli said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re watching South American nations running elections much more smoothly than California, with much more reliability. And that should embarrass every American. It would be nice if it embarrassed every Californian enough to fix it, but not yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Exhibit A why the Senate must do whatever it can to put the SAVE America Act on Trump\u2019s desk. The intelligence community\u2019s sacred cow of extended surveillance power could be the vehicle, Cuccinelli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do know how Congress has treated FISA in the past, like some holy relic that must be handed down,\u201d he said. \u201cHow about we get our holy relic?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cuccinelli urged voters to call their members of congress and demand they attach the SAVE America Act to Section 702 renewal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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