House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday declared that he’s taking his crusade against the House’s proxy voting protocols to the Supreme Court, despite surging cases of COVID-19 throughout the country due to the delta variant.
Gosh, I remember when Republicans used to complain that the federal courts were being clogged with trivial horseshit like enforcing school dress codes . . . I guess when you’re a Big Important Congresscritter, it makes all the difference!
Not necessarily. He’s handing the supreme court a weapon they can use to selectively veto any legislation they dislike: oopsie, you used proxy voting at stage X of passing legislation Y, therefore it is null and void even though it passed the House and Senate and was signed by the president.
This supreme court really likes to legislate from the bench.
Pro-life, pro-death, pro-life, pro-death. They cannot make up their f_ckin’ minds! But, of course, their pro-life shtick was a fraud from the git go. P.S. McCarthy doesn’t have a mind to make up…
Kern County’s testing positivity rate is nearly 10%, or six times the 1.5% public health officials set as a maximum. McCarthy has large rebuild projects at the main military bases on his district (China Lake and Edwards) which has also meant large influxes of contractors from around the country, many from places that reject masking and vaccination. Kevin is at war with his own voters. The result is that Kern County is like a third-world country with respect to covid. Oh wait, third-world countries are kicking our ass in public health research such as the efficacy of masking.
“I’m asking the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution by overturning Speaker Pelosi’s perpetual proxy voting power grab.”
Article I, Section 5, Paragraph 2:
“Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.”
(Psst, Kevin: It’s that yellow, parchment thingy over at the Archives.)
How dare you say that my behaviour’s unacceptable
So condescending unnecessarily critical
I have the tendency of getting very physical
So watch your step 'cause if I do you’ll need a miracle
(etc., etc.)