(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The Supreme Court has dealt another disappointing blow to Republicans, this time letting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., get away with unilateral Congressional rule changes, the Washington Times reported.
In the wake of the Coronavirus spread, Pelosi invented a new rule allowing congressmen to vote without being on the House floor by giving the power to cast their vote to another member.
According to Pelosi’s arbitrary innovation, a single lawmaker can vote for up to 10 others on a given bill. The rule was legally challenged by Republicans and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Though she originally created the system in Spring of 2020 when the danger of the virus was yet unknown, she has continually renewed the rule as America’s elites continue to perform as if most people are still concerned about the virus.
Pelosi’s rule fundamentally challenges the notion of civic participation, and goes hand-in-hand with Democratic attempts to make that participation as convenient as possible.
In their view, any sort of public participation is an attack on voting rights, and therefore anti-democratic.
She also asserted that the Congress is Constitutionally guaranteed independence from the Supreme Court, though she generally shows little to no regard for the Constitution.
“Both the Constitution and more than a century of legal precedent make clear that the House is empowered to determine its own rules — and remote voting by proxy falls squarely within this purview,” the California Democrat said in a statement.
Pelosi praised herself for giving scared Congressmen the option to not do their jobs during the pandemic, while blaming Republicans for endangering the lives of millions.
“With this failed lawsuit, Republicans have worked to recklessly endanger the health of colleagues, staffers and institutional workers,” Pelosi said. “In doing so, they have fought harder to try to score political points than they have fought to help struggling families during the pandemic.”
She also praised the court’s decision to not force lawmakers to make laws.
She also called the lawsuit a “sad stunt.”
