Marjorie Taylor Greene Backs Trump For House Speaker: ‘Only Candidate for Speaker I am Currently Supporting’
Marjorie Taylor Greene Backs Trump For House Speaker: ‘Only Candidate for Speaker I am Currently Supporting’
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene endorsed former President Donald Trump for speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
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I think you have to be a member of the house to be its speaker.
8 6 ReplyThe Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
23 0 ReplyNope, literally anybody could be nominated.
16 0 ReplyThat would seem reasonable, but it's not the case.
Article 1, Section 2 only says:
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
14 0 Replychuse
When your country's Constitution no longer has modern spelling, it's time to revise it.
20 0 ReplyWe could probably just update that word
3 2 ReplyIf we can actually get the votes to modify it in any way, we need to do a lot more than that!
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