Here's an interesting legal battle that I hope reaches the Supreme Court.

in #proxy2 months ago

image.png

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4492212-federal-judge-rules-proxy-votes-cant-count-toward-house-quorum

For a couple of years during Covid, the Democratic majority in the House allowed proxy votes - votes cast by members present on behalf of absent members - to count towards a quorum for doing business.

Here's the Constitutional issue. The Constitution explicitly authorizes each chamber to determine its own rules of procedure. But it also explicitly requires a majority for conducting business.

So can the House devise a rule that manipulates the meaning of the word "majority"?

They clearly had a majority of members' votes available, but apparently at times only a minority of members' bodies present.

Is all the legislation that was passed that way illegitimate, having not been passed in a constitutionally allowable manner?

Of course most of the hoopla in this case is about is about the evil of a judge striking down a desirable law. Americans, on the whole, don't care at all about constitutional requirements.

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.30
TRX 0.12
JST 0.033
BTC 64449.70
ETH 3164.37
USDT 1.00
SBD 3.87