mack7.62
02-23-23, 14:29
Breaking the law has risks.;)
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
BREAKING REPORT: Texas Lawsuit Over Proxy Voting May End Biden’s Entire $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree Before it Starts..
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in NEW LAWSUIT that the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was invalid because the House never actually passed the omnibus spending bill the president purportedly signed into law.
https://www.jdjournal.com/2023/02/21/texas-lawsuit-challenges-legality-of-federal-spending-bill-over-proxy-quorum-use/
Texas Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Federal Spending Bill Over Proxy Quorum Use
The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit claiming that the 2023 federal spending bill did not become law because it passed without an in-person quorum of the U.S. House of Representatives as required by the Constitution. The lawsuit, filed on 15 February, alleges that the Constitution requires the physical presence of House members for a quorum and that proxy votes cannot be counted. The suit cites the Constitution’s quorum clause, which says, “Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each House may provide.”
The House accepted Senate amendments to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 on 23 December 2022, when fewer than half its members were present. The vote on the $1.7 trillion bill was 225-201 when proxy votes were counted. However, the bill did not pass the House of Representatives without an in-person quorum, and the suit alleges that as a result, President Joe Biden’s “signature was a nullity.”
Chuck Callesto
@ChuckCallesto
BREAKING REPORT: Texas Lawsuit Over Proxy Voting May End Biden’s Entire $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree Before it Starts..
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in NEW LAWSUIT that the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 was invalid because the House never actually passed the omnibus spending bill the president purportedly signed into law.
https://www.jdjournal.com/2023/02/21/texas-lawsuit-challenges-legality-of-federal-spending-bill-over-proxy-quorum-use/
Texas Lawsuit Challenges Legality of Federal Spending Bill Over Proxy Quorum Use
The state of Texas has filed a lawsuit claiming that the 2023 federal spending bill did not become law because it passed without an in-person quorum of the U.S. House of Representatives as required by the Constitution. The lawsuit, filed on 15 February, alleges that the Constitution requires the physical presence of House members for a quorum and that proxy votes cannot be counted. The suit cites the Constitution’s quorum clause, which says, “Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each House may provide.”
The House accepted Senate amendments to the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 on 23 December 2022, when fewer than half its members were present. The vote on the $1.7 trillion bill was 225-201 when proxy votes were counted. However, the bill did not pass the House of Representatives without an in-person quorum, and the suit alleges that as a result, President Joe Biden’s “signature was a nullity.”