House Republican leaders are suing in an effort to stop the remote voting rule change set to be used in the House for the first time, underscoring the divide between the two parties over whether it's safe to return to work amid the pandemic
"This is unconstitutional what the Democrats are doing," McCarthy said."It is essential that Congress continues to meet and that's why we'll move forward with the lawsuit."The House GOP leader went on to argue that any legislation passed under remote voting by proxy would be unconstitutional as well."Whatever the Democrats propose to bring up cannot become law because it's unconstitutional," he said.
Chip Roy told CNN that the House GOP has been waiting for weeks to file a lawsuit against proxy votingShortly after Democrats unveiled their idea of proxy voting amid coronavirus, Roy, a Republican from Texas and a former federal prosecutor, began calling some of Washington's conservative legal minds. What did they think? Was this Constitutional? Roy, who previously worked for Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen.
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