How each Speaker candidate voted in overturning 2020 election results
thehill.com
With nine candidates in the running for Speaker, some Republicans are raising questions over whether their votes on overturning the 2020 election results should be a factor in electing the next lea…
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Voting in support of insurrection makes you an insurrectionist. If we're going to move the goal post, we can easily move it back.
Why does this vote exist as a codified procedure then?
Not coincidentally, an entire literature has been written on this by constitutional scholars and historians in the past few years.
Because governments are not absolute, perfect systems. You can have a functionally useful system that still happens to allow bad faith participants to get voted in.