Really? Not because he’s a murderer who committed war crimes, but because he leaked some data?
They sure have their priorities straight…
Unless the majority of republican reps are calling for it, there’s literally no point in even mentioning it.
This guy weathered the brunt of it when republicans were openly criticizing it. There’s no doubt he’s not up to the task in front of him, but the party won’t challenge it at this point.
we don’t even need the majority. we need 4 repubs to flip in the house and like 2 in the Senate to get a majority vote on something
No, the Hastert Rule (which Johnson would absolutely invoke again) would mean we’d need a supermajority in order to force it to actually get voted on. A simple majority can’t force a floor vote.
The Speaker usually has de facto control over floor votes on pending legislation (via the United States House Committee on Rules). The Hastert rule says that the speaker will not allow a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within their party—even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it.
The rule keeps the minority party from passing bills with the assistance of a minority of majority party members. In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the speaker would not allow a vote to take place.
It can be bypassed with a discharge petition but those are incredibly rare, and as we saw with the Epstein files, at the point that a party thinks they’re likely to lose to one they’ll figure out another route to forestall (like SCOTUS or having the FBI redact everything that hurts them).
The rule keeps the minority party from passing bills with the assistance of a minority of majority party members.
Of course. Why wouldn’t we want a rule that keeps us from passing a bill that the majority of members would vote for? /s
It’s a republic, not a democracy.
(Or whatever people say these days to justify how the legislative and electoral systems are complete trash)
He won’t.
The White House has defended Hegseth’s orders, alleging that after drug trafficking groups were dubbed foreign terrorist organizations, lethal strikes were legal.
That’s a warning to EVERYONE else - if you don’t cooperate, we’ll designate you a terrorist, and simply kill you with no further explanation.
Doing it to random foreigners is just normalizing it for the American people, so they’ll stop worrying about it. It’s just a matter of time before they start using this justification on Americans. They have already designated “ANTIFA Ost” (ANTIFA East), a German outfit, as a terrorist organization, so that’s probably good enough to include anyone they consider to be ANTIFA, which we already know could be anyone.
Remember, the first person to speak on the House Floor after Congress re-comvemed on the night of January 6, was Matt Gaetz, and he told a bold-faced lie: that he was in touch with sources that assured him that the entire incident was caused by ANTIFA.
It’s their favorite Boogeyman, and they are going to paint every political opponent as ANTIFA, and then do whatever they want to them, up to and including having the military blow them up.
Cool, until 5 democrats break off and only demand Hegseth stop drinking at the podium instead of resign.
Tomorrow’s headline: Hegseth authorizes missile strike on new Democrat Coalition.
Rules for thee but not for me, the republican way.
