Court dings Pelosi’s pandemic vote-by-proxy scheme, rules spending bill was illegally passed

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stretched the Constitution beyond its breaking point with her pandemic-era voting rules that allowed lawmakers to vote on bills without even being present.

Judge James Wesley Hendrix, in his groundbreaking ruling, also said a spending bill passed using the proxy-voting system was passed illegally, since less than half of House lawmakers were present for the Dec. 23, 2022 vote.

That means there was no official quorum and the House should not have been able to do business.

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