Can Trump be prevented from entering the House?

[Yosemito]

It sounds to me like Donald Trump just wants to barge in the house and deliver the State of the Union speech without being invited. Can Nancy Pelosi instruct Security to get him out of there if he tries to pull this off?
How does this work legally?

[leftieNanner]

1. The House and the Senate

both have to pass resolutions to allow for the SOTU. Legally, he won't be permitted to speak. Practically, I'm guessing that the Sargent at Arms would block his entry. That would be interesting. As I posted on another thread, I hope CNN has their cameras lined up at the door. Wouldn't that be wonderfully embarrassing for Trumpy to be on every news broadcast in that way!

[dameatball]

6. Yes. It is pretty well settled that he cannot speak without Pelosi's permission. The interesting

part (at least to me) is what action the Sargent at Arms would take if he insists.

[Volaris]

7. As I understand it, the Sargent at Arm's does not work for the executive branch...

but rather, for the co-equal branch of the legislature. Which means he answers to Madame Speaker, and full-well knows this.
My bet is hes smart enough to tell Trump to pound sand, and not lose his job heh.

[dameatball]

8. Right. I'm just speculating on the optics. I hope the nitwit tries something and gets his ass

handed to him. But I think it will probably be defused someway.

[Volaris]

9. My guess would be he turns his fatass around and goes home rather than get

arrested for tresspassing on live TV...

[leftieNanner]

10. Yeah -

another temper tantrum.

My younger daughter was prone to those when she was between 18 months old and 2. So it's past time for him to STOP THIS!

[tblue37]

15. No lights or cameras will be available. He would look pretty darned silly. nt

[tblue37]

17. The ignorant fool thinks he outrank Pelosi and even that he is her boss. McConnell & Ryan

have sucked up to him to the point that he believes he can demand that Pelosi do this or that. Besides, he thinks women are supposed to be subservient to men.

Because of his ignorance about how the government works, he doesn't realize that the House and Senate comprise the legislative, a government branch co-equal with the executive and the judicial branches.

[pandr32]

2. We're all waiting to see him arrested

...but this will do in the meantime.

[manor321]

3. She controls lights and the cameras. There will be no televised SOTU in the House without her perm

[LiberalFighter]

14. Yep! And that is what Individual 1 wants more than anything.

Since she controls the cameras in the House Chamber he will out of luck.

[octoberlib]

4. He can enter the House but can't speak from the rostrum without permission.

[unblock]

5. the house is in charge of its own security, led by the sergeant-at-arms.

he and his security staff can keep the doors locked, or otherwise deny entry to donnie.

[lame54]

11. Let him in...

He'll get lost immediately
Let him wander the halls for the rest of his term

[dameatball]

12. I think he will probably just lash out in some other way. He can't tolerate being put in his place,

so he will do something else hurtful and pointless.

[brooklynite]

13. Even if he shows up and forces his way in...

...Pelosi controls all TV cameras in the Chamber.

[Achilleaze]

16. Yeah but a submissive KGOP republican symp could livestream by smart phone

so the kremlin and KKK won't miss a word of what ignoble republican misleader Dirty Donny* spews.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[tblue37]

18. She can douse the lights, too. nt