• rusticus@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Fire her. She’s compromised and a Trump appointee that should have been recused.

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      5 months ago

      How?

      Wouldn’t she need to be to be impeached by the House? The house is controlled by the GOP. Even if a few republicans wanted to remove her, you would still need the GOP speaker to bring this to the floor.

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        5 months ago

        And the house GOP passed a law that lets them oust their own speaker with a minority vote, too.

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          5 months ago

          That’s not true.

          It still requires a simple majority to remove a speaker. In the case of Kevin McCarthy, the vote was 216 to 210, in favor of removal.

          What is new is that the GOP is allowing anyone to bring a motion to vacate to the floor. You still need a majority vote to oust someone, but any yahoo can now force the house to drop everything and vote on removing the speaker.

          That causes chaos and previously it required a higher bar to get a motion to vacate rolling.