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On Friday, legal expert Chris Geidner took to Twitter to tear apart House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for one of the first plans he has announced once the Republican majority is officially sworn into the chamber.
Link to tweet
"On the very first day of the new Republican-led Congress, we will read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House something that hasn't been done in years," McCarthy had pledged. However, Geidner took issue with several aspects of this idea.
"1. Its the House youre leading, not Congress. 2. A public reading like this is performative," wrote Geidner. Furthermore, he continued, "3. Who will read the Three-Fifths Clause? 4. Who will read the 14th Amendment?"
Republicans gained fewer than ten seats in the House, after many experts had predicted a blowout wave election with potentially dozens of pickups for the GOP. Democrats maintained control of the Senate, carrying 50 seats with a 51st on the line in Georgia next month in a runoff election between Democratic Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed former football star Herschel Walker.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kevin-mccarthy-s-performative-planned-constitution-stunt-torn-apart-by-law-expert/ar-AA14zaDs
elleng
(131,111 posts)'read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House .'
Midnight Writer
(21,802 posts)aggiesal
(8,923 posts)yankee87
(2,175 posts)Mobster mentality
calimary
(81,479 posts)Rebl2
(13,555 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)do something about inflation
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... which will be in a couple of weeks.
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Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)I missed it if he was.
Why is he deciding what the House will do on day one?
Mr.Bill
(24,323 posts)can read.
LiberalFighter
(51,088 posts)Aristus
(66,462 posts)That whole "merciless Indian savages" passage will go over well...
rsdsharp
(9,202 posts)before the big day, and things they didnt like were left out of the reading like the 3/5th clause relative to the census. Boner also announced that each bill must reference the Constitutional provision that authorized it. That lasted about 20 minutes.
Kevin, like Trump, has never read it. If he did, he wouldnt understand it. If he understood it, he wouldnt like it.
Bucky
(54,068 posts)as does the "necessary and proper" clause
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Asking for a friend.......
Bucky
(54,068 posts)Old school Republicans use this clause when they promoted inner-city development through "enterprise zones" -- a conservative idea that worked good enough that Democrats adopted it too.
ProfessorGAC
(65,174 posts)It's in the preamble & It's in the article covering the legislature. And, the context is the same.
But, conservatives ignore it both times.
Ford_Prefect
(7,921 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)Nothing nothing blah blah blah SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)It says all the things they want it to say.
Bo Zarts
(25,403 posts)Bo Zarts .. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .. z!
Girard442
(6,085 posts)Every Republican House member reads. All R members have to be in attendance the whole time, and ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox have to carry the entire thing live, beginning to end with no commercial breaks.
Otherwise it's just some guy in an empty room pointlessly muttering into a microphone.
NJCher
(35,732 posts)so how about this: every member is given 5-10 minutes to write out a paraphrase of what they heard.
Each paraphrase will be picked up an aide and posted online by Congressional district so any member of that district can see the understanding each representative has.
If this sounds juvenile and schoolmarmish, excuse me, but I am a schoolteacher. I do this (write out a paraphrase) in classes and it is quite revealing as to how deep of an understanding the listener has.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,424 posts)Now gimme my gold star or I'll superglue your desk drawers!
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)For the record, Congress has two parts, the Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress meets in the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. just in case Kevin asks.
republianmushroom
(13,687 posts)Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)Ask the grand jury why they haven't indicted.
republianmushroom
(13,687 posts)the evidence has been produced. If the DoJ says there is more than they will wait.
Talitha
(6,617 posts)What a bunch of clowns.
Bucky
(54,068 posts)NBachers
(17,136 posts)aeromanKC
(3,327 posts)The last time it was read in Congress.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)As they are to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Which is to say not at all.
yankee87
(2,175 posts)Of course the Jesus they worship carries an AK47, denies food to the poor and says all rich people are Gods chosen. Then the only amendment that matters, the shortened 2nd, right to bear arms.
Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)He wasn't always a nice guy, you know: beating up merchants because they made him mad--over a non-violent offense. Hating on foreigners enough to call them dogs to their faces. Promoting divisiveness, even amongst families. Wanting to hurt people forever if they don't agree with him.
But, sure, they aren't like him at all.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)I'm agnostic and don't subscribe to any religion.
But the core message from Jesus as I undertand it was to help the poor and the sick and to welcome the stranger.
He overturned the tables of the money changers in the temple, and did not equate wealth with virtue.
I don't hold up Jesus or anyone else as some kind of perfect being. I evaulate their ideas and their life's work to the best of my ability.
No one can pass a purity test.
Early on, Abraham Lincoln's views on the African race would be appalling today, but he grew and learned and changed his views.
The gist of my first post is that rightwing "Christians" are among the worst hypocrites on the planet, and the planned recitation of the Constitution is performative hypocrisy as well.
Stinky The Clown
(67,818 posts)mn9driver
(4,428 posts)They dont have any legislation ready to go. All they have are hearings about Hunter Bidens laptop.
gulliver
(13,195 posts)And the cameras should pan to the Republicans looking at their shoes the whole time
Journeyman
(15,039 posts)that would impress me most.