If Mike Johnson (R-LA) cannot carry the conference, look for the professionally Republican Kevin McCarthy wing to reassemble and attempt reinstallation.
WASHINGTON DC – Rep. Mike Johnson won a closed-door contest on Tuesday night to become his party’s fourth speaker nominee.
Now, the Louisiana lawmaker faces the much tougher task of securing the 217 votes he needs to win on the House floor. Earlier Tuesday, Johnson came in second to Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who then withdrew after former President Donald Trump publicly came out against him.
So, Republicans went back to the drawing board, and made Johnson the latest aspirant to a position the fractured and exhausted conference can’t seem to fill. He beat out a field of four other candidates, including Byron Donalds in the final ballot by a 128 to 29 vote. Some 44 other Republicans didn’t vote for either of the two men.
After winning the nomination, Johnson said he was “very confident” that he could get 217 votes and said “the intention is to go to the floor” for a vote on Wednesday. (more)
Rep Stefanik just nominated Rep Mike Johnson for Speaker of the House.
I do not trust Stefanik. Therefore I do not trust Mike Johnson. Something is fishy. Stefanik is trying to become VP and she would be worse than Pence. Please do not fall for it, DJT.
If you can’t trust Stefanik and you give this as a reason why you don’t trust Johnson, who do you think can be trusted to win the battle against Globalist Communism in the House of Representatives? Johnson may do a few things we don’t like, but he is a good man who is at least honest. If Stefanik is making a play for a bigger office for herself, she might just as well get in line for the chance. PDJT is not going to select anyone from the RINO crowd because he knows where his own votes come from.
Can you offer some specifics about your issues with Stefanik?
She is not completely MAGA.
Uniparty clown show rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic without major reforms in a vast number of areas to overcome decades of educational, media, and cultural subversion by leftists.
Chevron Deference and the Administrative State
Why do US Courts always seem to give the three letter agencies the benefit of the doubt?
ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS
Oct 24, 2023
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/chevron-deference-and-the-administrative
Excerpt:
Those seeking to hold the FDA, CDC, NIH/NIAID, DoD and DHS accountable for injury caused by their gross mismanagement of the COVIDcrisis often attempt to turn to the Federal courts for legal redress. Unfortunately, in addition to the layered specific legal indemnification provided by the congressionally approved PREP act, CARES act and Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP), since 1984 there has been a general legal position that the (unelected) third branch of government, the courts, will defer to the “expertise” of a fourth, unelected branch (the administrative state) and its permanent federal employees (embedded within the “elected” executive branch) when confronting a scientifically or technically controversial subject.
The administrative state as well as its Senior Executive Service and GS-rank staff arrogantly and unconstitutionally consider themselves to be the permanent employees of the US Federal Government, and consider the elected officials tasked with funding, oversight and management of these agencies (Congresspersons and the POTUS) merely temporary employees.
The Chevron Deference doctrine legal policy established by the Supreme Court in 1984 <what irony!> has become a keystone of US administrative law, and forms the legal basis which enables this extra-constitutional fourth branch of government. This decision has played a central role in enabling the explosion of administrative state power and authority seen since that legal decision. Subsequent to the majority opinion justifying the decision which underpins the “Chevron Deference” doctrine, the assertion by the Supreme Court that the administrative state represents an “elected” branch of government has become transparently absurd.
Only a Collapse and Total Reboot Can Fix Our Bloated Government System
Nov 14, 2016
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tony-corvo/2016/11/14/only-a-collapse-and-total-reboot-can-fix-our-bloated-government-system-n48938
Excerpt:
Conservatives keep voting for candidates thinking that they will fix the bugs, but let’s look at what this approach would take. In one form or another we will have to:
1) Elect at least a generation of conservative supermajorities in both chambers of congress. They have to be supermajorities because parliamentary rules allow for political minority actions to stop simple majority legislation.
2) We will have to elect a string of conservative presidents to work with the conservative congresses. We can’t have activist presidents who govern by executive actions in order to bypass congress.
3) True constitutionalists must be nominated and approved to the Supreme Court.
4) Conservatives will have to control at least 37 state legislatures, because sooner or later we will need to make constitutional amendments.
So in other words, “Chevron” is a recently fabricated construct of the unelected judiciary. IMO this construct itself is unconstitutional wherever applied – past, present, future – because there is no such consideration defined with the US Constitution.
FWIW, Justice Scalia supported Chevron. I disagree with him but reasonable people can disagree
Here is an article arguing against Justice Scalia’s opinion which seems to be borne out by the rise of the administrative state that we here at the Treehouse regularly rail against. By its very nature, IMO, Chevron deference is unconstitutional because it rewrites the law as passed by the legislative branch and allows judges/justices to skew the law as written in favor of what the executive branch or the judicial branch thinks the law should or should not encompass.
Also IMO the founders never wanted or intended for non-elected, therefore, non-representative officials to exercise that level of control over We the People.
By the way, I am not a supporter of The Federalist Society per se but find their position to be grounded in the Constitution itself rather than the Judicial branch’s tortured assumption that governing decisions can be expanded beyond what We the People’s representatives passed.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/why-scalia-was-wrong-about-chevron#:~:text=In%20an%20influential%201989%20article,can%20legislate.%E2%80%9D%20Scalia%20believed%20that
I’m sure those who are judging Mike Johnson by his looks are much more handsome and intelligent looking and have much more attractive families. What a joke.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq40S_gVYAAeYL_?format=jpg&name=large
The biggest Joke today is Kevin McCarthy, whose perfidy the past three weeks to sink nominees Jordan and Scalise to regain the Speakership himself, has now been outed by Rep Gaetz on Bannons War Room.
The Swamp is now defeated if Johnson is voted in as Speaker.
Speaking of looking handsome and Intelligent,… Kevin McCarthy now looks anything but.
https://rumble.com/v3rloms-rep.-gaetz-mccarthy-camp-sabotaged-mike-johnsons-speaker-vote-to-protect-dc.html
I think Mr. Speaker looks like Kevin Kline from “DAVE”.
Speaker vote: Johnson, 217 votes. Jefferies, 207 votes.
We have a Speaker of the House,…. Speaker, Mike Johnson (LA-R)
Johnson is now Speaker of the House
HOO BOY!