As the pandemic 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, individual lawmakers who hoped to avoid the floor of the Capitol -- because they were experiencing symptoms, because someone in their household was ill, etc. -- could now vote by proxy.
It wasn't complicated: members could reach an agreement with like-minded colleagues, who in turn would agree to vote on their behalf. The system ensured that many representatives could participate in the legislative process during a pandemic without endangering themselves or their colleagues. For reasons I've never fully understood, Republicans were outraged. In fact, in May 2020, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joined with 20 other GOP lawmakers inA 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.
So what happens now? On the Republican side, McCarthy and his cohorts will have to decide whether to appeal yesterday's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, though it's difficult to imagine why they'd bother. On the Democratic side, when the proxy policy was first created in May 2020, it was designed to be temporary, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a position to extend the emergency authority every 45 days. As theIf Pelosi concludes that enough members have been vaccinated, and the abuses of the rules have become too common, proxy voting may come to a swift end.
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