.MaddowBlog: Rep. McCarthy wages a strange crusade against proxy voting
yesterday, the California Republican added to the list with an unnecessary appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
, as the Covid-19 crisis started taking a severe national toll last year, House Democratic leaders came up with a temporary fix intended to limit lawmakers' exposure. Under the plan, lawmakers who hoped to avoid the floor of the Capitol – because they were experiencing symptoms, because someone in their household was ill, etc. – could cast votes by proxy.
For reasons I've never fully understood, Republicans were outraged – or at least said so in public. It led McCarthy and 20 other GOP House members toA district court rejected the case, concluding that it wasn't up to the judiciary to intervene in how the legislative branch established its own procedural rules. In July, a federal appeals court
As for the road ahead, the Supreme Court appears unlikely to take the case. McCarthy probably knows this, but he may hope to get another couple fundraising appeals in front of prospective donors, boasting about taking a fight against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's policy all the way to the highest court in the land.
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