House Republicans SUE Pelosi to stop unconstitutional proxy voting

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House Republicans sue Pelosi in bid to stop proxy voting amid coronavirus concerns

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News May 27, 2020:

House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to block a system of proxy voting put in place during the coronavirus pandemic on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.

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Proxy voting would allow House members to vote on another person’s behalf if they are not able to be physically present at the Capitol, an unprecedented exception for an unparalleled health crisis.

At least 59 Democrats have submitted letters to the House Clerk’s office to authorize their vote to be cast by proxy. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers have said they will be in the Capitol to cast their votes.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., called the new voting rules “a dereliction of our duty as elected officials,” and argued that “a small number of members dictating the businesses of the whole House while the people’s voice is diluted” would be a dangerous precedent to set.

McCarthy is at the helm of the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with the support of 20 other members of his party — including Rep. Chip Roy from Texas, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney from Wyoming, as well as four constituents.

“It’s simple: one representative should equal one vote. We can’t let her get away with this,” Scalise tweeted Tuesday

Pelosi called the lawsuit a “sad stunt” intended to “delay and obstruct urgently-needed action to meet the needs of American workers and families during the coronavirus crisis.”

The speaker also argued that past rulings by the Supreme Court have upheld that the Constitution allows each chamber of Congress to set its own procedural rules. For proxy voting, the House sergeant-at-arms and the attending physician have to notify lawmakers 24 hours in advance of invoking remote voting and the rule will stand for up to 45 days once it has been invoked.

“As our nation approaches the heartbreaking milestone of 100,000 lives lost to COVID-19, House Republicans must stop their dangerous obstruction and join Democrats to save lives, defeat the virus and grow the economy,” Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday.

“The rule change to allow remote voting in order to maintain public health fits within those bounds,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said. “We should not endanger public health when technology can enable us to meet remotely – just as Senate committees, the Supreme Court, and businesses and schools across the country have done over the past few weeks.”

The new voting system will likely take place as early as this week, and Republicans heading the lawsuit say they doubt the lawsuit will do anything to stop the votes from proceeding.

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

I hope that lawsuit works. We need SCOTUS to settle that too. If the Dem tyrants corrupt the electoral system and hijack it, they are cruising for a serious bruising. And for the sake of peace, we must make them fail in the courts.

tn_tea _ partyer_420
tn_tea _ partyer_420
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Its scary to think the courts, which have not been reliable in many years, are going to have to keep peace. The leftist know they are in bigtime trouble come November.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

“The leftist know they are in big-time trouble come November”
I hope so. They are obviously panicked. But commies and Dems are habitually poor at consequential thinking. They don’t like negative consequences, they reject consequences, and they want the world to be ‘different’, or ‘nice’. They are continually surprised when they go to jail, get fired, get publicly humiliated, or have the public refuse to forget about that intern who ‘hit her head’.

They want to withhold their birth certificate, and ‘be forgiven’.

And because they are so poor at consequential thinking, Democrats can drift into horrible situations with terrible outcomes. E.g.. The Civil War.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
3 years ago

sue her ass until she resigns

blackfeather
blackfeather
3 years ago

is “she” a human or an alien??

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.” one of only 8 left in this turdworld hellhole state.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

I guarantee you Mr. and Mrs. Ivanaka are rallying for this too. Ivanka knows all about child sweat shop labor. She was caught using them. It was disgusting. She’d rather have you believe she cares about handicapped kids, sexually exploited children and trafficked kids too. What BS! She also thinks the world of Islam and made it a point to invite herself to a mosque in a totally inappropriate outfit.

GOP Senators Beg Trump to Import More Foreign Workers, 36M Americans Jobless
JOHN BINDER 27 May 2020

Nine Republican Senators are lobbying President Trump to import more foreign workers, claiming there are not enough qualified Americans to take jobs, even with more than 36 million out of work.

While economists predict there may soon be 41 million unemployed Americans due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), James Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), and James Lankford (R-OK) are asking Trump to continue an inflow of foreign workers to take agricultural and nonagricultural jobs.

Specifically, the GOP Senators say Trump must continue fast-tracking H-2A foreign agricultural workers and H-2B foreign nonagricultural workers into the U.S. and should allow businesses to exempt themselves from foreign worker restrictions so long as they claim they cannot find Americans to hire.

(AUTOMATE IT! There is no reason for this. Machines are more efficient and get the job done faster. Strings should have been attached to the farmer bailouts requiring this.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/27/gop-senators-beg-trump-to-import-more-foreign-workers-36m-americans-jobless/

Don’t be fooled here either. Both parties want L1, H1-B and all the other VISAS too! The GOP wants cheap labor the and DEMS want more voters and ANCHOR babies!

BUSTED:
Ivanka Trump pays sweatshop workers near minimum wage for 57-hour workweeks

April 25, 2017By Bob Brigham
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/busted-ivanka-trump-pays-sweatshop-workers-near-minimum-wage-for-57-hour-workweeks/
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1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
3 years ago

Q. When you sue a drunken alcoholic Speaker of the house do they really care about the Constitution they violated?

A. No.

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