WASHINGTON — For more than an hour Tuesday, as the House debated whether to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist tweets telling four minority congresswomen to “go back” to their “crime-infested” countries, the debate had to be put on pause. The problem: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., used the word “racist.”
As Josh Chafetz, a Cornell Law School professor, pointed out on Twitter, Hoyer’s ruling was based in precedent that can be found in Thomas Jefferson’s Manual of Parliamentary Practice. “In Parliament, to speak irreverently or seditiously against the King is against order,” the 1801 book reads. The House ultimately passed the resolution condemning Trump’s tweets. Pelosi was not the only Democrat to call Trump’s tweets racist, but she was the only one targeted by Republicans for impermissible language. Carried by Democrats, the House ultimately voted not to strike her words from the record, as well as to allow her to continue speaking; typically, the punishment would be to sit silently.
Schickler described Tuesday’s scene as yet another example of “procedural warfare” between political parties, serving as a distraction from the president’s own words to rebuke Pelosi for hers. The principle can sometimes be enforced “to the point of absurdity,” Schickler said, since it’s difficult to debate whether the president should be condemned for being racist without breaking the rule.
Rebuked? Her comments stood as made and as approved by the parliamentarian
Why rebuke the most obvious.....even if you agree with the message or messenger. Still completely wrong & unacceptable!!!
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