McCarthy asks Supreme Court to overturn House proxy voting rules

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the House proxy voting protocols that were implemented last year as a pandemic precaution.

Driving the news: McCarthy issued a statement Thursday blasting the proxy voting protocols, which allow lawmakers who are not present to choose other members as proxies to cast their votes.

"Today, we are asking the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution by overturning Speaker Pelosi’s perpetual proxy voting power grab," McCarthy said. "Although the Constitution allows Congress to write its own rules, those rules cannot violate the Constitution itself, including the requirement to actually assemble in person."

The House adopted the proxy voting protocols in May 2020 in a 217-189 vote along party lines.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccarthy-asks-supreme-court-overturn-124550007.html

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. You and what army, Kevin?

Who’s going to enforce any SCOTUS ruling (if they dare to rule) on internal congressional processes and rules?

[FBaggins]

15. Um... they will?

If SCOTUS declares the practice unconstitutional (which I don’t expect) then any law that only passes with proxy votes can be overturned.

[secondwind]

2. Everything is a power grab to these nutjobs..

[PoliticAverse]

3. From May 2020 - Republicans suffer embarrassing court defeat in proxy-voting case

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/republicans-suffer-embarrassing-court-defeat-proxy-voting-case-n1274594

[crickets]

24. Great find, with several more pertinent links in the article.

Tidbit:

Indeed, though the system was intended to address the COVID crisis, some members -- including several far-right Republicans -- have apparently abused the temporary rules, voting by proxy while appearing at events such as the Conservative Political Action Conference. Kevin McCarthy and other GOP leaders -- the ones who literally made a federal case out of the temporary model -- said very little when their own members started taking advantage of the system.

To call Repubs hypocrites has become redundant. It's just a given.

[wryter2000]

4. Is he stupid?

The Supreme Court rules on existing cases. It doesn't make pronouncements from the bench. Even the 2000 fiasco was Bush v. Gore.

[hlthe2b]

5. He really is a stupid, stupid, stupid, ignorant man.

[RKP5637]

6. Kevin McCarthy is stupid or ignorant or uneducated or senile ... or maybe all! n/t

[agingdem]

14. where Trump is a grandiose pathological liar

McCarthy is more of an inept moron spewing implausible hyperbolic bullshit...I see McCarthy as SNL's Pathological Liar jumping in front of a camera, lying his ass off, and shouting "yeah...that's the ticket!"...

[RKP5637]

21. Yep!!!! n/t

[Auggie]

7. Grandstanding, for MAGATS and MORANS.

[grumpyduck]

10. You beat me to it.

[Auggie]

22. You go first next time

Plenty of MAGATS and MORANS opportunities to come.

[Botany]

8. I'm not a lawyer but doesn't Congress make its own rules? And as long as the rules they set are ...

... Constitutional it is up to the Congress and not the SCOTUS to set its OWN RULES.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. Seems like his 'case' is that it's not Constitutional

This SCOTUS in particular may very well rule that he's right that it's not, except in exceptional circumstances like a pandemic.

Then the question becomes 'who decides when is it over, and how'?

Which is, in turn, a question that I'd think the Court would not want to outline/define.

[FBaggins]

16. That's the question they're asking

“As long as the rules are constitutional “

[Patton French]

9. but of course

[gopiscrap]

28. welcome to DU

[Patton French]

29. Thank you!

[gopiscrap]

30. You're welcome

hope you enjoy this community

[rurallib]

11. What good is cheating to pack the courts unless they

do the party a couple of good turns?
constitution, shmonstitution - it is what we say it is! Right, Amy?, Brett?, Neil?, Sammy?, Clarence?

[Ocelot II]

12. The Supremes won't touch House procedures.

They've actually heard of the separation of powers doctrine even if Kevin hasn't - at least when it suits his purposes.

[zaj]

17. Seems like he will win.

If it's unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional.

I have to think it is. I mean it destroys the whole idea of a talking filibuster.

[MagickMuffin]

25. The House no longer has a filibuster

In the United States House of Representatives, the filibuster (the right to unlimited debate) was used until 1842, when a permanent rule limiting the duration of debate was created. The disappearing quorum was a tactic used by the minority until Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed eliminated it in 1890.

[zaj]

27. I get it, but...

It's back on the table as a tool for reform, and it would kill these reform efforts.

Also, proxy voting is likely unconstitutional.

[maxrandb]

18. This is how Retrumplicans want this shit to work

Donnie Dipshit actually thought the Supreme Court would install him as president.

One party no longer believes in a Democracy formed and outlined in a Constitution.

I'm surprised McCarthy just doesn't ask the Supremes to declare him King.

These are dangerous fucking people.

If they ever get back in power again, they won't surrender that power peacefully.

That should scare the fuck out if all of us.

[spanone]

19. But it was okay when you held the majority, right kev?....fuck you mccarthy

[Midnight Writer]

20. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[Generic Brad]

23. If you're whining, you're losing

McCarthy reeks of desperation and political impotence.

[lame54]

26. They can't just speak professionally...

Always gotta be a childish dig included

They're so pathetic