House Republicans Sue Nancy Pelosi Over Power-Grabbing Proxy Voting Rules
May 27, 2020 By Tristan Justice
House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an effort to block sweeping rule changes that would upend more than 200 years of precedent and present serious risks to chamber security systems.
Filed Tuesday evening by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California in the D.C. District Court with 20 more GOP lawmakers and four constituents, Republicans argue the new rules granting widespread proxy voting are unconstitutional and fly in the face of how the nation’s founders intended its legislature to operate.
“In the 231-year existence of the United States Congress, neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate has ever permitted a member to vote by proxy from the floor of the chamber,†the lawsuit opens. “Through the Civil War; through the burning of the Capitol during the War of 1812 and the terrorist attach on Washington on 9/11; and through the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 and the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918, the Congress of the United States has never before flinched from its constitutional duty to assemble at the Nation’s Capital and conduct the People’s business in times of national peril.â€
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